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wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« on: Tuesday 28 April 20 16:01 BST (UK) »
need help deciphering WWI naval ship name have attached close up and expanded out images and advise is appreciated thanks

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Re: wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 29 April 20 11:27 BST (UK) »
Sorry looked at wrong vessel.
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Re: wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 29 April 20 11:32 BST (UK) »
Hermes ?
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Re: wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 29 April 20 11:34 BST (UK) »
How about Hermione. Launched in 1893 and took part in WW1, sold 1921.

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Re: wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 29 April 20 13:27 BST (UK) »
Tricky.

I also wondered about something along the lines of Hermione, but the ending just doesn't seem right.

Makes me wonder whether it is - as Shaun suggested - Hermes, but written Hermaes. For whatever reason... And with a small squiggle at the end.

HMS Hermes went down in 1914 after being torpedoed. Does that possibly tie in with whatever you are researching, teatom?

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Re: wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 29 April 20 13:54 BST (UK) »
It is not Hermes because the sailor who compiled those sheets would know how to spell it and there are too many letters.

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Re: wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 29 April 20 14:13 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Crumblie on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:54 BST (UK)
It is not Hermes because the sailor who compiled those sheets would know how to spell it and there are too many letters.

I have to admit to having no idea what these sheets are or who wrote them.

But whoever wrote it, for someone who knows how to spell the name, he's made a pretty crap job of it if it should indeed be Hermione.  ;)
McDonald MacDonald M'Donald McGregor MacGregor M'Gregor Twilley Wells Fentiman Carrington Rowe Needham Mitchell Mackie Collingwood Fuller Maides Shilton Hagon Budd

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Re: wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 29 April 20 14:25 BST (UK) »
There's an alphabetical list of WWI Royal Navy Ships and here's the G-H webpage:-

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Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: wwi naval ship name help please!!!!
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 29 April 20 15:02 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Karen McDonald on Wednesday 29 April 20 14:13 BST (UK)
Quote from: Crumblie on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:54 BST (UK)
It is not Hermes because the sailor who compiled those sheets would know how to spell it and there are too many letters.

I have to admit to having no idea what these sheets are or who wrote them.

But whoever wrote it, for someone who knows how to spell the name, he's made a pretty crap job of it if it should indeed be Hermione.  ;)

The sheet is a sailor's service record and shows which ships he served on, when and what his rank was on each vessel.
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