HMS Adventure was an Adventure class

Adventure class cruiser

The Adventure class was a two ship class of scout cruiser serving with the Royal Navy in World War I, and consisting of the ships HMS Adventure and HMS Attentive.-Design:...

 scout cruiser

Scout cruiser

A scout cruiser was a type of warship of the early 20th Century, which were smaller, faster, more lightly armed and armoured than protected cruisers or light cruisers, but larger than contemporary destroyers...

 which served with the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 before and during the First World War. She was built by Armstrong Whitworth

Armstrong Whitworth

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 of Elswick, Tyne and Wear

Elswick, Tyne and Wear

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, being laid down on 7 January 1904 and launched on 8 September 1904.

Career

In April 1907 she collided with, and sank, a fishing boat off the Sussex

Sussex

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 coast. She led the 1st torpedo boat destroyer Flotilla and was refitted at Chatham

Chatham, Medway

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 docks in June 1910. She then became Flotilla leader

Flotilla leader

A flotilla leader was a warship suitable for commanding a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships, typically a small cruiser or a large destroyer...

 for the 2nd destroyer Flotilla based in Devonport

HMNB Devonport

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. She underwent another refit in August 1912, and then joined the 3rd light cruiser squadron on maneuvers. In July 1913 Adventure joined the 6th destroyer flotilla based at Dover

Dover

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In May 1915 she joined the 6th Light Cruiser squadron on the Humber

Humber

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 to patrol against Zeppelin

Zeppelin

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s raiding up the east coast. In July of that year became the flagship at Queenstown

Cobh

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 until November 1917. On Boxing Day

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 in 1915 she distinguished herself by rescuing the crew of the stricken steamship Huronian. She escorted convoys to Gibraltar

Gibraltar

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 during the last summer of the war, then served in the Mediterranean and, in 1919, the Aegean

Aegean Sea

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. She returned to Immingham

Immingham

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 docks to be paid off on 12 August 1919. Her bad luck with collisions continued when she was rammed by a trawler on the Humber in January 1920. She was then sold to the breakers for scrap on 3 March 1920, and was towed by the fellow scout cruiser HMS Skirmisher

HMS Skirmisher (1905)

HMS Skirmisher was one of two Sentinel class scout cruisers which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Vickers Limited, laid down in July 1903, launched on 7 February 1905 and completed in July 1905 at a cost of about £282,000. She sported a partial turtle deck forward and shorter funnels...

 to Morecambe

Morecambe

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