Maritime History

HMS Warrior (1917)

HMS Warrior was a steel-hulled steam yacht that was launched in Scotland in 1904. Her first owner was Frederick William Vanderbilt. One of his cousins, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, owned her for a few months before he was killed in the sinking of RMS Lusitania. She passed through several owners. She was renamed Wayfarer in 1914, Warrior again in 1915, Goizeko-Izarra in 1920, Warrior again in 1937, and Warrior II in 1939. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in both world wars, and evacuated Republican child refugees in the Spanish Civil War. In February 1917, Warrior was commissioned as an armed yacht. She patrolled from Bermuda to the Caribbean until January 1918. In March 1918 she became the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station. From April 1918 to January 1919 she was moored in Washington, D.C., where she hosted social events to support UK – US diplomatic and naval relations. In the Second World War the yacht was converted for anti-submarine warfare, and recommissioned as HMS Warrior II. A German air attack sank her in the English Channel in July 1940. Her remains attract recreational wreck divers.

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See also

• ▸City of Newcastle
• ▸Fort Totten (Queens)
• ▸HMS Invincible (1765)

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