H.M.S. Colombo (1918)

H.M.S. Colombo (1918)
Pendant Number:	7A (Jun 1919)
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down:	8 Dec, 1917
Launched:	18 Dec, 1918
Commissioned:	18 Jun, 1919
Sold:	22 Jan, 1948

Service

Colombo was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 January, 1920.

She re-commissioned 1 September, 1924.

Re-commissioned on 19 July 1926 for service on the North America and West Indies Station.

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 3 January, 1928.

She re-commissioned for trials at Chatham on 15 April, 1931 under the command of Aubrey Thomas Tillard.

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 27 June, 1933 for service with the Fourth Cruiser Squadron on the East Indies Station.

Re-commissioned on 23 October, 1936 in the Reserve Fleet at The Nore.

Fire Control

Listed in June 1918 as one of eight light cruisers to receive a Mark III* Dreyer Table, presumably in place at time of completion.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Captain Percy Withers, 7 May, 1919 – after December, 1919
• Commander Arthur H. Walker, 1 July, 1920 – c. 1 October, 1921^[Inference]  (temporary)
• Captain Casper B. Ballard, 1 October, 1920 – 20 December, 1921
• Captain Archibald Cochrane, 7 December, 1921 – 17 May, 1923
• Captain James W. Murray, 19 April, 1923 – July, 1925
• Captain Hugh T. England, 1 June, 1925 – March, 1926
• Commander Charles G. C. Sumner, 27 April, 1926 – 25 July, 1926  (temporary)
• Captain Arthur M. Lecky, 11 May, 1926 – November, 1927  (suspended for illness due to ulcer from August, 1926)
• Captain James S. C. Salmond, 28 August, 1926 – 8 October, 1927  (temporary, while Lecky convalesces from an ulcer)
• Captain Claude C. Dobson, 1 October, 1927 – 21 January, 1930
• Captain Aubrey T. Tillard, 15 April, 1931 – c. August, 1931
• Captain Allan Poland, c. June, 1931 – 2 January, 1933
• Commander Frederick M. C. Curtis, 6 December, 1932 – 19 June, 1933
• Captain Charles E. B. Simeon, 19 June, 1933 – c. December, 1935
• Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey C. L. Dalley, 9 December, 1935 – 28 September, 1936
• Lieutenant-Commander Reginald V. Barton, 30 December, 1935 – 13 January, 1936  (temporary, vice Dalley)
• Lieutenant-Commander Charles G. N. Graham, 29 April, 1936 – 29 April, 1936  (temporary)
• Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey C. L. Dalley, 29 April, 1936 – 16 May, 1936
• Commander Russell Grenfell, 15 June, 1936 – 14 September, 1936  (vice Graham)
• Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey C. L. Dalley, 14 September, 1936 – 28 September, 1936  (vice "Grenfell")
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert Dalby, 1936 – 28 September, 1936
• Commander William S. Bardwell, 28 September, 1936 – 20 April, 1937  (temporary, on transfer to Devonport Reserve)
• Captain Ralph Kerr, 4 November, 1936 – 20 April, 1937  (and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
• Captain Denham M. T. Bedford, 21 July, 1937 – 9 August, 1938
• Captain Charles F. Harris, 9 August, 1938 – 25 July, 1939  (vice Bedford)
• Commodore, Second Class Richard J. R. Scott, 31 July, 1939 – 8 February, 1940  (and commanding Eleventh Cruiser Squadron)
• Captain Charles A. E. Stanfield, 8 February, 1940 – 28 August, 1941
• Captain Cecil C. A. Allen, 28 August, 1941 – 22 April, 1942
• Captain William P. Carne, 22 April, 1942 – 11 June, 1942
• Captain Derrick H. Hall-Thompson, 20 February, 1943 – 12 January, 1944
• Captain Herbert W. Williams, 12 January, 1944 – 1 March, 1944
• Captain Christopher T. Jellicoe, 1 March, 1944 – 16 December, 1944
• Captain Kenneth M. L. Robinson, 16 December, 1944 – 11 June, 1945
• Acting Captain R.N.V.R. George Lee-Morris, 1 July, 1945 – late 1945

Some confusion in 1936, it seems.

See Also

• Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net
• Wikipedia

Bibliography

• Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
• Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
• Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.