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Revision as of 17:22, 23 June 2014

In Command

Dates of appointment given:

History

July, 1914

The squadron was:[4]

Outbreak of War

Two additional light cruisers have reinforced the squadron.[5][6]

November, 1915

Attached to the Battle Cruiser Fleet.[7]

Battle of Jutland

Main article: First L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland

The squadron was one of three screening the battlecruisers:[8]

17 November, 1917

At the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight[9]

Screened by:

July, 1918

The Squadron is still assigned to screen the Battle Cruiser Force.[10]

November, 1918

No change since July.[11]

Drill and Practice

In 1917, the squadron fired 56 practice torpedoes of which 45 or 80% were judged to be likely to endanger the enemy.[12]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 5.
  2. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1915). p. 6.
  3. ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. p. 24.
  4. ↑ Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
  5. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 440.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 15.
  7. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1915). p. 11.
  8. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 33, 46.
  9. ↑ Naval Operations. Vol. V. pp. 168-169.
  10. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (July, 1911). p. 11.
  11. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1911). p. 11.
  12. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 121.

Bibliography


Light Cruiser Squadrons of the Royal Navy
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