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{|align="right" border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 0 0 1em 0.5em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" width="300" |align="center" colspan="2"|'''H.M.S. ''Aurora''''' |- !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: crimson;"| Career !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: crimson;"| Details |- |Pendant Numbers: |C1 (1914)<br>08 (Jan 1918)<br>''none'' (Apr 1918)<ref>Dittmar; Colledge. ''British Warships: 1914-1919''. p. 47.</ref> |- |Built By: |[[Chatham Dockyard]] |- |Laid Down: | |- |Launched: |30 September, 1913 |- |Commissioned: | |- |Sold: | |- |Fate: | |- |} ==Career== ''Aurora'' commissioned at Devonport on 5 September, 1914.<ref>''Navy List'' (December, 1914). p. 279.</ref> At the [[Battle of Dogger Bank]], she was the leader of the [[First Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)|First Destroyer Flotilla]].<ref>March. ''British Destroyers'', p. 123.</ref> ==Alterations== In 1915-1916, she was given a [[Wise Pressure Telegraphy System Type B]] to trial for torpedo control. Based on this trial, in 1917, she likely received [[Chadburn Torpedo Order Telegraph]]s and had her Wise gauges redone to indicate [[Torpedo Deflection]] only, as well as having Barr and Stroud instruments provided to acknowledge torpedo orders given via Wise and Chadburn.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916'', p. 30.</ref> ''Aurora'' was fitted with a director in December, 1917. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919'', pp. 11-12.</ref> ==Captains== Dates of appointment given: *Captain [[Wilmot Stuart Nicholson|Wilmot S. Nicholson]], 11 November, 1914.<ref>''Navy List'' (December, 1914). p. 279.</ref> *Captain [[Humphrey Wykeham Bowring|Humphrey W. Bowring]], 15 November, 1917.<ref>''Navy List'' (December, 1918). p. 736.</ref> ==See Also== *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Aurora_(1913) Wikipedia] ==Footnotes== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{BibDittmarColledge}} *{{BibConways1906-1921}} *{{BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918}} *{{BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919}} {{refend}} [[Category:Ship]] {{Arethusa Class (1913)}}

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