HMS Cochrane
What was the name of HMS Ambrose (1903) in early 1940s?
HMS Ambrose ( 1903 ) HMS Ambrose was a steamship that was built for in 1903 as a passenger liner . The Booth Steam Ship Company ran her scheduled on services between Liverpool and Brazil until the First World War . Ambrose was converted into a Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser ( AMC ) in 1914–15 and then into a submarine depot ship in 1917 . After the First World War she supported Royal Navy submarines in the Far East from 1919 until 1928 , when she was laid up in the Reserve Fleet . In 1938 Ambrose was renamed HMS Cochrane and converted into a destroyer depot ship . Cochrane survived the Second World War and was scrapped in 1946 . Building . Sir Raylton Dixon and Company of Middlesbrough built Ambrose for £89,000 . She was launched on 31 March 1903 and completed that September . Her registered length was and she was long overall . Her beam was , her holds were deep and her draught was . As built , her tonnages were and . Ambrose had one screw . The North Eastern Marine Engineering Company built her three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine . The engine was variously rated as 775 nhp , 800 nhp or . It gave her a speed of . Ambrose was registered at Liverpool . Her UK official number was 118405 and her code letters were VFSJ . Civilian service . Booths operated scheduled cargo liner and passenger services between Europe and Brazil . In the first decade of the 20th century these services included regular sailings between Liverpool and Manaus , up the Amazon River . A Booth passenger ship would leave Liverpool for Manaus on or about the 10th , 20th and 30th day of each month . Ambroses maiden voyage from Liverpool to Manaus began on either 20 September or 7 October 1903 . In 1906 Ambrose ran aground in Brazil . She had sailed from Liverpool on 30 August , called at Leixões in Portugal , and on 26 September reached Manaus . At 1000 hrs on 3 October she left Manaus on her return journey . At 1515 hrs she reached Para na Trinidade , some miles downriver on the Amazon , where she ran aground and suffered damage . Ambrose remained at Para na Trinidade for a week , and reached Liverpool on 27 October . Booth Line took Ambroses need for repair as an opportunity to increase her passenger capacity . On 28 October she left Liverpool for Hebburn on the River Tyne , where R&W Hawthorn , Leslie and Company repaired her hull , lengthened her poop deck and added berths for another 150 passengers . The alterations increased Ambroses tonnages to and . Work was completed on 30 March 1907 and cost £17,000 . By 1914 Ambrose was equipped for wireless telegraphy , operated by the Marconi Company . Her call sign was MDR . Armed merchant cruiser . On 20 November 1914 the British Admiralty requisitioned Ambrose for conversion into an AMC . She was armed with eight 4.7 inch guns and two 6-pounder guns , and commissioned on 10 December 1914 as HMS Ambrose by Commander Charles William Bruton , R.N. , with the pennant number M 87 . Ambrose served in the 10th Cruiser Squadron as part of the Allied Blockade of Germany . She patrolled between the British Isles , Iceland and Norway . On 11 March off the west coast of Scotland a submarine attacked Ambrose three times . The first attack was at 1320 hrs , when a torpedo missed her bow by . The second attack was at 1405 hrs , when a torpedo passed astern of her . The third attack was at 1422 hrs . On each occasion Ambrose opened fire on the periscope . After the third encounter the attacks ceased , and Ambroses officers suspected that she had sunk the submarine . On 6 May submarines attacked Ambrose off Skerryvore . Ambroses patrols with the 10th Cruiser Squadron ended in September 1915 , when she reached port in Glasgow . On 13 October she transferred to Greenock and on 20 October her crew was paid off . Also on 20 October , the Admiralty bought Ambrose from Booth Line . Submarine depot ship . In 1917 Ambrose was converted into a submarine depot ship . In this rôle her complement was 238 officers and enlisted men . She was stationed at Berehaven , Ireland in January 1918 and transferred to Falmouth , Cornwall in November . In 1919 she was stationed at Devonport . From 19 September 1918 until 30 October 1920 her commander was Commander Cecil Talbot . On 1 October 1919 Ambrose and were sent to support the Fourth Submarine Flotilla in Hong Kong , replacing HMS Rosario . Six L-class submarines accompanied Ambrose : , , , , and . Ambrose and her submarines reached Hong Kong in January 1920 . Ambrose spent long periods at the Royal Navy bases in Hong Kong and Weihaiwei . She also visited Kobe and Shanghai in 1920 , Nagasaki and Kobe in 1921 and Singapore in 1923 . In 1928 Ambrose and six L-class submarines were recalled to Britain . On this trip the six submarines were HMS L1 , , L4 , , L7 and . They left Hong Kong on 28 March , reached Singapore on 3 April and left Singapore on 8 April . On 4 December Ambrose was paid off into the Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth . Final years . On 1 June 1938 Ambrose was renamed HMS Cochrane . Some sources say that she was converted into a destroyer depot ship . Another source describes her Second World War rôle as a base ship . In 1946 Cochrane was decommissioned and that November she was scrapped at Inverkeithing .