H.M.S. Southampton (1912)

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H.M.S. Southampton (1912)
Pendant Number: 89 (1914)
9A (Jan 1918)
35 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Laid down: 6 Apr, 1911[3]
Launched: 16 May, 1912[4]
Commissioned: Nov, 1912[5]
Sold:

Service

Completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 25 February, 1913.[6] Initially attached to the First Battle Squadron Captain Arthur A. M. Duff took command the next month. She was ordered to transfer to the First Light Cruiser Squadron on 1 July.[7] William Edmund Goodenough would become captain almost at the same time as this transfer.[8]

Battle of Jutland

Southampton was flagship of the Second Light Cruiser Squadron, screening the battlecruisers under the command of Commodore William Edmund Goodenough.[9]

At about 10pm, Southampton and her squadron suddenly found themselves in a point-blank gun engagement with German light cruisers on their beam. Casualties amongst her gun crews in their exposed positions were high.

The cruiser was equipped with 21-in Mark II** torpedoes, and fired one at high speed setting from the starboard tube at a gyro angle of 15° left at 10.20 or 10.30pm (not clear in hand-corrected source) at a line of five enemy cruisers at 1,500 to 2,000 yards range. Multiple observers felt it may have hit the foremost ship, whose searchlights went out.[10]

Post-War

Southampton recommissioned at Portsmouth on 20 May, 1919.[11]

Paid off into Reserve on 30 August, 1924.[12]

Alterations

In October 1914, the ship was to be given 5 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[13]

A detailed report from the Battle of Jutland makes it clear that the ship had some form of an elevation-only director at the time of the battle, though its use was as a resort for instances where the target could not be seen by the guns.[14]

One source, however, indicates that Southampton was only fitted with a director in March, 1918, almost certainly referring to a proper Vickers light director outfit.[Inference] This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[15]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 375.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 376.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 375.
  9. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
  10. ↑ Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY ?/?), item 1.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 865.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 271.
  13. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  14. ↑ Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY 6/6), item 1, sections 2 and 11.
  15. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  16. ↑ Chatfield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 346.
  17. ↑ Chatfield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 346.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 376.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 398c.
  20. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  21. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  22. ↑ Astley-Rushton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 55.
  23. ↑ Astley-Rushton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 55.
  24. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  25. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  26. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  27. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  28. ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 513. In our PDF for Benjamin Wingate Barrow.
  29. ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 513. In our PDF for Benjamin Wingate Barrow.
  30. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 909.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
  32. ↑ This Braithwaite Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/504. f. 507.
  33. ↑ Braithwaite Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/504. f. 507.
  34. ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 106.
  35. ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 106.
  36. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 270.
  37. ↑ Laurence Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/175. f. 579.
  38. ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
  39. ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
  40. ↑ Hawes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 298.
  41. ↑ Hawes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 298.

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.
  • Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.


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