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==History== | ==History== | ||
HMIS ''Lawrence'' was ordered under the Emergency War Programme of the [[World War I|First World War]],{{Citation needed|date=August | HMIS ''Lawrence'' was ordered under the Emergency War Programme of the [[World War I|First World War]],{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} being launched at [[William Beardmore and Company]] on 30 July 1919 and completed on 27 December 1919.<ref name="JFS31 p96"/> In the immediate post-war years, ''Lawrence'' was used by the Royal Indian Marine for servicing buoys and lighthouses and as a transport for high officials in the [[Persian Gulf]].<ref name="RIN p6-7">Collins 1964, pp. 6–7.</ref> | ||
In 1925 while conducting anti-slavery patrols the ship conducted a bombardment of [[Fujairah Fort]], destroying three of the forts towers.<ref>Zahlan, Rosemarie Said (2016-03-22). The origins of the United Arab Emirates : a political and social history of the Trucial States. London. p. 165. ISBN 9781317244653. OCLC 945874284.</ref> | In 1925 while conducting anti-slavery patrols the ship conducted a bombardment of [[Fujairah Fort]], destroying three of the forts towers.<ref>Zahlan, Rosemarie Said (2016-03-22). The origins of the United Arab Emirates : a political and social history of the Trucial States. London. p. 165. ISBN 9781317244653. OCLC 945874284.</ref> | ||