&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Engadine.jpg) Engadine at anchor, 1915, with a Short Brothers seaplane on her stern
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | SS Engadine |
| Owner | South East and Chatham Railway |
| Builder | William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland |
| Launched | 23 September 1911 |
| Completed | 1911 |
| Fate | Leased to Royal Navy, 11 August 1914 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Engadine |
| Acquired |
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| Commissioned | 1 September 1914 |
| Fate | Sold back to owners, December 1919 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | SS Engadine |
| Owner | South East and Chatham Railway/Southern Railway |
| Acquired | December 1919 |
| Fate | Sold, 1932 |
 United States | |
| Owner | Fernandez Hermanos, Inc. |
| Acquired | 1933 |
| Renamed | SS Corregidor |
| Fate | Sunk by mine, 17 December 1941 |
| General characteristics (as of 1918) | |
| Type | Seaplane carrier |
| Tonnage | 1,676 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Displacement | 2,550 long tons (2,590 t) (deep load) |
| Length | 323 ft (98.5 m) |
| Beam | 41 ft (12.5 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft 8 in (4.2 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph) |
| Range | 1,250 nmi (2,320 km; 1,440 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 197 |
| Armament | |
| Aircraft carried | 4 × seaplanes |
HMS Engadine was a seaplane tender which served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. Converted from the cross-Channel packet ship SS Engadine, she was initially fitted with temporary hangars for three seaplanes for aerial reconnaissance and bombing missions in the North Sea. She participated in the Cuxhaven Raid in late 1914 before she began a more thorough conversion in 1915 that increased her capacity to four aircraft. Engadine was transferred to the Battle Cruiser Fleet in late 1915 and participated in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 when one of her aircraft flew the first heavier-than-air reconnaissance mission during a naval battle. She was transferred to the Mediterranean in 1918.
She was sold back to her original owners in 1919 and resumed her prewar role. Engadine was sold in 1933 to a Philippine company and renamed SS Corregidor. She was sunk with heavy loss of life by a mine in December 1941 during the invasion of the Philippines at the beginning of the Pacific War.