Previous name:                    INDRABARAH 
Subsequent name:

Official Number:                   

Class:                                     Repair Ship / Submarine Depot Ship           

Pennant No:                           F 31      

Laid down:                           
Builder:                                   Sir James Laing & Son, Deptford Yard, Sunderland
Launched:                              27 October 1905           
Into Service:                           October 1907
Out of service:                       
Fate:                                        Broken up at Newport, Monmouthshire         

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

27 October 1905 launched by Sir James Laing & Son, Deptford Yard, Sunderland  as Yard Number 609 named INDRABARAH for Sir Thomas B. Royden & Sons, Liverpool.  Purchased  by the Admiralty whilst fitting out and converted into a Fleet Repair Ship

October 1907 completed

21 October 1907 Captain C R de C Foot Royal Navy appointed in command

25 October 1907 arrived at the Nore

5 November 1907 commissioned at Devonport as HMS CYCLOPS

2 December 1907 at Invergordon having repaired HMS Fawn which had stranded commenced to tow her to Portsmouth for permanent repairs

6 December 1907 the tow with HMS Fawn broke. Re attached

11 December 1907 sailed Portsmouth for Chatham

9 March 1908 sailed Sheerness for Home Fleet exercises off Invergordon together with RFA Maine returning to Sheerness on 2 April 1908

28 August 1908 sailed Sheerness for the Moray Firth

14 April 1915 Chief Engineering Artificer R E Luxton discharged dead. He is buried in Lerwick Cemetery

3 November 1915 Electrical Artificer 1c Thomas Libby

14 December 1916 Captain Charles Tibbetts MVO Royal Navy in command

1914 to 1918 served at Scapa Flow

11 January 1918 Engine Room Artificer John Broomfield RNR discharged dead. He is buried in WALLSEND (CHURCH BANK) CEMETERY, Northumberland in grave E. C. 37.

1 April 1919 paid off then recommissioned for White Sea service at Archangel

October 1919 returned to Chatham

31 January 1920 paid off into Nore Reserve for refit and conversion into a Submarine Depot Ship

21 December 1922 commissioned for service with the 1st Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet

27 March 1925 sailed Gibraltar for Portland and then Chatham

15 June 1925 sailed Rosyth to visit Cambleton, Rothesay and Bangor Co. Down

17 December 1925 Shipwright 1c Percy Martin discharged dead

May 1926 at the Royal Albert Docks, London

16 December 1926 recommissioned for service with the 1st Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean

2 February 1928 Able Seaman Robert Cook discharged dead

1929 in refit in Malta until 31 August 1929

23 December 1930 Leading Stoker Albert Crocker discharged dead. He is buried in Kalkara Royal Naval Cemetery, Malta

16 October 1932 Petty Officer Steward Joseph Vella discharged dead 

25 December 1932 Stoker George Edward Maxwell discharged dead. He is buried in Kalkara Royal Naval Cemetery, Malta

3 June 1934 Electrical Artificer 3c Henry Cecil Ryder discharged dead. He is buried in Kalkara Royal Naval Cemetery, Malta

16 July 1935 participated in the King George V Silver Jubilee Fleet Review at Spithead

24 November 1936 sailed Malta for Alicante to assist in the evacuation of refugees from the Spanish Civil War

20 May 1937 participated in the King George V1 Coronation Fleet Review at Spithead

24 June 1938 paid off into Dockyard hands at Malta

6 November 1939 sailed Gibraltar in convoy HG 6 to Harwich

23 November 1939 Leading Steward WIlliam Gove discharged dead. He is buried in CATTERLINE BURIAL GROUND, Kinneff and Catterline, Kincardineshire

1 September 1940 Chief Mechanic Charles W Gates discharged dead. He is buried in THURSTON (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD, Suffolk

21 April 1941 Stoker 1st Class James A Douglas discharged dead. He is buried in ROTHESAY CEMETERY in Sec. L. Grave 1793

15 June 1941 Able Seaman George H Hart discharged dead. He is buried in GLASGOW (CARDONALD) CEMETERY, Glasgow in Sec. E. Grave 17

2 March 1943 Stoker 1c Frank Wells discharged dead . He is buried in ROTHESAY CEMETERY in Sec. L. Grave 1798.

30 April 1944 Lieutenant Commander Edgar Beldon RNVR discharged dead. He is buried in CALVERLEY (ST. WILFRID) CHURCHYARD, Yorkshire in Section A grave 133

11 August 1944 Electrical Artificer 4th Class Geoffrey A Gostelow discharged dead. He is buried in WATFORD CEMETERY, Hertfordshire in Sec. M. Cons. Row 7. Grave 610.

26 April 1945 Chief Petty Officer William E Fisher discharged dead. He is buried in SHEDFIELD (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) CHURCHYARD, Hampshire.

18 July 1946 Chief Petty Officer Patrick M Clancy discharged dead. He is buried in PORTSMOUTH (MILTON) CEMETERY, Hampshire in Plot M. Row 17. Grave 55

29 June 1947 arrived Newport, Monmouthshire for demolition by John Cashmore Ltd