HMS Pasley was an built on the Tyne

Tyne

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 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 and launched on 15 April 1916. She saw service during the First World War.

In foul weather on the night of 16 September 1917, whilst escorting a convoy from Aspe Fjord in Norway

Norway

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 to Lerwick

Lerwick

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, she rammed and sank the submarine HMS G9

HMS G9

HMS G9 was a British G class submarine, one of eight Royal Navy submarines lost to friendly fire in World War I.-Construction:The second of her class built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness, G9 was laid down on 8 December 1914...

, after G9 fired two torpedoes at her, believing her to be a German U boat. Pasley stopped to pick up survivors, but only one member of G9s crew was saved after Henry Old jumped into the sea to attach a running bowline around him, enabling him to be hauled aboard.

Pasley suffered extensive but not critical damage to her bows, and was able to continue her voyage to Lerwick. She was later repaired and returned to the fleet. At the Court of Inquiry held four days after the incident aboard HMS Indomitable

HMS Indomitable (1907)

HMS Indomitable was an of the British Royal Navy. She was built before World War I and had an active career during the war. She tried to hunt down the German ships Goeben and Breslau in the Mediterranean when war broke out and bombarded Turkish fortifications protecting the Dardanelles even...

 at Scapa

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, it was decided no blame could be attached to Pasley, concluding "that the process of reasoning which led the captain of HM Submarine G9 to mistake HMS Pasley for a U-boat is, and must remain, unexplained".

The captain of HMS Pasley, Commander Charles Gordon Ramsey

Charles Ramsey (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Charles Gordon Ramsey KCB was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland. He was later appointed aide de camp to King George VI. His portrait by Bassano, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London.-Naval career:Ramsey joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in...

, later rose to the rank of admiral, and was appointed aide de camp to King George VI during the Second World War. His portrait by Bassano

Alexander Bassano

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 hangs in the National Portrait Gallery

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, London.

HMS Pasley was sold for scrap on 9 May 1921.