HMS Waterwitch (1892), a hydrographic
survey vessel originally called Lancashire Witch and purchased in 1893 and sunk in 1912 after being accidentally rammed by a launch belonging to the governor of Singapore.
HMS Waterwitch (1915), a
despatch vessel launched on 17 October 1914 at the Fairfield Shipyard in Glasgow. Originally ordered by the Turkish Government as Rechid Pasha the vessel was purchased by the Royal Navy on completion in 1915. She served at Gallipoli ferrying soldiers, then at Salonika 1916-17 and Istanbul 1918-19. She was returned to Turkey in 1923, her UK registry closed in 1924 and served as a Bosphorus ferry until about 1983. She was then converted into a luxury motor yacht, her steam engines being replaced by twin diesels. She is still in service today as Halas 71 at Istanbul and Fethiye.
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HMS Waterwitch (1892), a hydrographic
survey vessel originally called Lancashire Witch and purchased in 1893 and sunk in 1912 after being accidentally rammed by a launch belonging to the governor of Singapore.
HMS Waterwitch (1915), a
despatch vessel launched on 17 October 1914 at the Fairfield Shipyard in Glasgow. Originally ordered by the Turkish Government as Rechid Pasha the vessel was purchased by the Royal Navy on completion in 1915. She served at Gallipoli ferrying soldiers, then at Salonika 1916-17 and Istanbul 1918-19. She was returned to Turkey in 1923, her UK registry closed in 1924 and served as a Bosphorus ferry until about 1983. She was then converted into a luxury motor yacht, her steam engines being replaced by twin diesels. She is still in service today as Halas 71 at Istanbul and Fethiye.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.