HMS Jason

Type:
Torpedo Gunboat
Class:
Builder:
Naval Construction &
Armament Co. Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
May 14, 1892
Keel Laid:
September 7, 1891
Completed:
July 11, 1893
Fate:
Sunk Apr. 7, 1917 by mine laid by SMS U-78 (Kapitänleutnant Otto Dröscher)

Location: North Atlantic, 3mi SE of Arinagour, Isle of Coll, Scotland.
(56.35N-06.28W)

25 men lost.
(Roll of Honour)
Notes:
Converted into a minesweeper in 1909.


Builder's Data
Page published Feb. 3, 2020