&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMSAnne.jpg) HMS Anne, note the two seaplanes on either side of the rear cargo booms and the gun on the quarterdeck
| |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Germany | |
| Name | SS Aenne Rickmers |
| Builder | Rickmers, Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Launched | 16 February 1911 |
| Completed | 1911 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | SS Aenne Rickmers |
| Acquired | August 1914 |
| Commissioned | 5 August 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 8 August 1917 |
| In service | January 1915 |
| Renamed | HMS Anne, 5 August 1915 |
| Reclassified | Merchant collier, 29 January 1918 |
| Fate | Sold, 1922 |
 Greece | |
| Acquired | 1922 |
| Renamed | Ithaki |
| Fate | Sold, 1939 |
 Romania | |
| Name | SS Itahki |
| Acquired | 1939 |
| Renamed | Moldova |
| Fate | Transferred to Panamanian registry, 1942 |
 Panama | |
| Name | SS Moldova |
| Acquired | 1942 |
| Fate | Sold to Wallen & Company, 1949 |
| Panama | |
| Name | SS Moldova |
| Owner | Wallen & Company |
| Acquired | 1949 |
| Renamed | Jagrahat, 1954 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 8 November 1958 |
| Notes | Renamed Moldova, 1955 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Seaplane carrier |
| Tonnage | 4,083 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 367 ft 1 in (111.89 m) |
| Beam | 47 ft 7 in (14.50 m) |
| Draught | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Propulsion |
|
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Armament | 1 × 12-pounder gun |
| Aircraft carried | 2 × seaplanes |
HMS Anne was a seaplane carrier of the Royal Navy used during the First World War. Converted from the captured German freighter Aenne Rickmers, the ship's two aircraft conducted aerial reconnaissance, observation and bombing missions in the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea during 1915–17 even though the ship was not commissioned into the Royal Navy until mid-1915. She was decommissioned in late 1917 and became a Merchant Navy collier for the last year of the war. Anne was sold off in 1922 and had a succession of owners and names until she was scrapped in 1958.