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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Owen Cochrane|nick=Edward O. Cochrane|appt=15 September, 1924<ref>Cochrane Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 147.</ref>|ass=November, 1924<ref>Predecessor remained in command until that day.  Walker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/135.}} f. 135.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Pott|nick=Herbert Pott|appt=August, 1928{{MackieRNW}}|end=17 September, 1930<ref>Pott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/278.|}} f. 310.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain and C.S.O. to Rear Admiral [[Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton|Dutton]]}}
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Revision as of 16:05, 28 October 2016

H.M.S. Cairo (1918)
Pendant Number: 97 (Sep 1919)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird
Laid down: 28 Nov, 1917
Launched: 19 Nov, 1918
Commissioned: 10 Oct, 1919[2]
Sunk: 12 Aug, 1942

Service

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.[3]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919.
  2. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 738.
  3. Handbook for Capt. FC Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
  4. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 738.
  5. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  6. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/135. f. 135.
  7. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/135. f. 135.
  8. Cochrane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 147.
  9. Troup Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/135. f. 340.
  10. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  11. Pott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/278. f. 310.
  12. Cochrane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 147.
  13. Cochrane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 147.
  14. Lyon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 480.
  15. Lyon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 480.
  16. Pridham-Wippell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/14. ff. 177, 253.
  17. Pridham-Wippell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/14. ff. 177, 253.
  18. Baxter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/137. f. 137.
  19. Baxter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/137. f. 137.

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.


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