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HMS
Engadine was a
seaplane tender which served in the
First World War. She was built as a
Folkestone-
Boulogne ferry by
William Denny and Brothers,
launched on
23 September 1911 and named after the
Engadine valley in
Switzerland. She was taken over by the
Royal Navy in
1914 along with her sister ship
HMS Riviera and modified by the construction of cranes and a hangar aft of the funnels so that she could carry four Short 184
seaplanes. There was no flight deck, the aircraft being lowered onto the sea for takeoff and recovered again from the sea after landing.
Her aircraft participated in the
Cuxhaven Raid on
Christmas Day 1914. At the
Battle of Jutland in
1916, one of her seaplanes, piloted by Lieutenant Frederick S. Rutland with Assistant Paymaster G.S. Trewin as observer carried out an aerial reconnaissance of the
German fleet. This was the first time that a heavier-than-air aircraft had carried out a reconnaissance of an enemy fleet in action. Later in the battle she rescued the crew of the crippled
HMS Warrior before taking her in tow. Later in the war she served in the Mediterranean.
She was sold back to her original owners, the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Company in December
1919.
By 1941, the ship had been renamed SS
Corregidor and was working in the
Philippines. On
17 December 1941, the ship — loaded with approximately 1,200 passengers fleeing
Manila — was sunk by a
mine off
Corregidor most likely laid by Japanese submarine
I-124. American
PT boats
PT-32,
PT-34 and
PT-35 rescued 282 survivors, 7 of whom later died from injuries.
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