H.M.S. Cairo (1918): Difference between revisions

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Listed in June 1918 as one of 8 light cruisers to receive a Mark III* Dreyer Table, presumably in place at time of completion.^[3]

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Captain Aubrey Lambert, 19 April, 1919^[4]
Captain Hugh S. Currey, March, 1921^[5]
Captain Arthur H. Walker, 15 August, 1922^[6] – November, 1924^[7]
Captain Edward O. Cochrane, 15 September, 1924^[8]
Captain James A. G. Troup, 7 November, 1926^[9]
Captain Herbert Pott, August, 1928^[10]
Captain Edward O. Cochrane, 9 June, 1932^[11] – 19 August, 1932^[12]
Captain George H. D'O. Lyon, 19 August, 1932^[13] – 1 August, 1934^[14] (as Commodore, Second Class as Commodore (D), Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas)

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.

Capetown Class Light Cruiser

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