S.M.H. Answald
1916
(Navis 85N)
- Class: Answald - 1 seaplane carrier of 1914
- Displacement: 5,297 tons
- Dimensions: 438' x 55' x 26'
- Machinery: Steam verical compound, 1 screw. 2650ihp = 11 kts
- Armament: 2-3.4in AA; 4 seaplanes
- Complement:
- Builder: Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack, Germany
- Laid Down: 1909
- Launched: 25 Sep 1909
- Commissioned: Aug 1914
- Service: Cargo ship built for Hamburg Bremer-Afrika Line. Taken over at start of WWI for conversion to seaplane carrier; commissioned as Flugzeugschiff (FS) I for service in the Baltic. Postwar to Britain as war reparations, purchased 1921 from the Shipping Controller by William Readron Smith & Sons, Cardiff, and renamed Vulcan City. Scrapped 1933.
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