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==Service==
==Service==
In the [[Battle of Jutland]], she was flagship of the {{UK-LCS|4}}, screening the Battle Fleet.{{UKJutlandOD|p. 34}}  
In the [[Battle of Jutland]], she was flagship of the {{UK-LCS|4}}, screening the Battle Fleet.{{UKJutlandOD|p. 34}}  
''Calliope'' re-commissioned at Chatham on 19 May, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 221}}
Re-commissioned with reserve crew at the Nore on 1 April, 1927.{{NLJul27|p. 220}}
Re-commissioned at Chatham on 26 September, 1928 for duty with the {{UK-CS|3}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLFeb29|p. 221}}


==Searchlights==
==Searchlights==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Edward Le Mesurier|nick=Charles E. Le Mesurier|appt=15 May, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 392''r''}}<ref>Le Mesurier Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 56.</ref>|end=14 August, 1917<ref>Le Mesurier Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 56.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}} in command of {{UK-LCS|4}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Edward Le Mesurier|nick=Charles E. Le Mesurier|appt=15 May, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 392''r''}}<ref>Le Mesurier Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 56.</ref>|end=14 August, 1917<ref>Le Mesurier Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 56.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}} in command of {{UK-LCS|4}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Rudolf Walter Bentinck|nick=Rudolf W. Bentinck|appt=14 August, 1917<ref>Bentinck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 47.</ref>|end=26 October, 1918<ref>Bentinck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 47.</ref>|note={{Com2RN}}, also in command of {{UK-LCS|4}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Rudolf Walter Bentinck|nick=Rudolf W. Bentinck|appt=14 August, 1917<ref>Bentinck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 47.</ref>|end=26 October, 1918<ref>Bentinck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 47.</ref>|note={{Com2RN}}, also in command of {{UK-LCS|4}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble|nick=Percy L. H. Noble|appt=15 October, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 748}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble|nick=Percy L. H. Noble|appt=15 October, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 748}}|end=10 March, 1917}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Walter Burdge Compton|nick=Walter B. Compton|appt=10 March, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 739}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Walter Burdge Compton|nick=Walter B. Compton|appt=10 March, 1919<ref>Compton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/247.|D7603033}} f. 281.</ref>{{NLDec20|p. 739}}|end=1 March, 1921<ref>Compton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/247.|D7603033}} f. 281.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Douglas Paton|nick=William D. Paton|appt=6 May, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 731}}|end=3 August, 1923<ref>Paton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/60.|D7602848}} f. 68.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Nore Reserve}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Douglas Paton|nick=William D. Paton|appt=6 May, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 731}}|end=3 August, 1923<ref>Paton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/60.|D7602848}} f. 68.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Nore Reserve}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Thomas Erskine Wardle|nick=Thomas E. Wardle|appt=21 June, 1923<ref>Wardle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 245.</ref>|ass=3 August, 1923<ref>Superseded his predecessor on that date.  Paton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/60.|D7602848}} f. 68.</ref>|end=13 February, 1924<ref>Wardle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 245.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Thomas Erskine Wardle|nick=Thomas E. Wardle|appt=21 June, 1923<ref>Wardle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 245.</ref>|ass=3 August, 1923<ref>Superseded his predecessor on that date.  Paton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/60.|D7602848}} f. 68.</ref>|end=13 February, 1924<ref>Wardle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 245.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Evelyn Claude Ogilvie Thomson|nick=Evelyn C. O. Thomson|appt=24 April, 1924<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.}} Unnumbered folio.</ref><ref>Day of month taken from predecessor.  Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/225.}}  f. 225.</ref>|end=mid May, 1924<ref>Inferred from successor.  Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 95.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Evelyn Claude Ogilvie Thomson|nick=Evelyn C. O. Thomson|appt=24 April, 1924<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.}} Unnumbered folio.</ref><ref>Day of month taken from predecessor.  Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/225.}}  f. 225.</ref>|end=mid May, 1924<ref>Inferred from successor.  Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 95.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Aubrey Thomas Tillard|nick=Aubrey T. Tillard|appt=15 May, 1924<ref>Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 95.</ref>|end=23 October, 1924<ref>Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 95.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Aubrey Thomas Tillard|nick=Aubrey T. Tillard|appt=15 May, 1924<ref>Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 95.</ref>|end=23 October, 1924<ref>Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 95.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Ford|nick=Wilbraham T. R. Ford|appt=23 October, 1924<ref>Ford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 180.</ref>|end=16 October, 1925<ref>Ford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 180.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Ford|nick=Wilbraham T. R. Ford|appt=23 October, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 221}}<ref>Ford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 180.</ref>|end=16 October, 1925<ref>Ford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 180.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Miles Brock Birkett|nick=Miles B. Birkett|appt=25 November, 1925<ref>Birkett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 518.</ref>|end=9 April, 1926<ref>Birkett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 518.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Miles Brock Birkett|nick=Miles B. Birkett|appt=25 November, 1925<ref>Birkett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 518.</ref>|end=9 April, 1926<ref>Birkett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 518.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Roy Neville Suter|nick=Roy N. Suter|appt=25 February, 1927{{NLJul27|p. 220}}|end=c. 1 July, 1927|note=discharged upon ship commissioning}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Leonard Stanley Holbrook|nick=Leonard S. Holbrook|appt=16 December, 1927<ref>Holbrook Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 219.</ref>|end=26 September, 1928<ref>Holbrook Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 219.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet Nore}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Leonard Stanley Holbrook|nick=Leonard S. Holbrook|appt=16 December, 1927<ref>Holbrook Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 219.</ref>|end=26 September, 1928<ref>Holbrook Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 219.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet Nore}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Francis Pridham|nick=Arthur F. Pridham|appt=26 September, 1928<ref>Pridham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|}} Book 9, f. 302.</ref>|end=September, 1929<ref>Pridham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|}} Book 9, f. 302.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Francis Pridham|nick=Arthur F. Pridham|appt=26 September, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 221}}<ref>Pridham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|}} Book 9, f. 302.</ref>|end=September, 1929<ref>Pridham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|}} Book 9, f. 302.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Graham Bower|nick=John G. Bower|appt=20 November, 1929<ref>Bower Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/99.|D7604511}} f. 222.</ref>|end=24 January, 1930<ref>Bower Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/99.|D7604511}} f. 222.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harry Bingham Jermain|nick=Harry B. Jermain|appt=24 January, 1930<ref>Jermain Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|}} f. 212.</ref>|end=30 January, 1931<ref>Jermain Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|}} f. 212.</ref>}}
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* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Calliope.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Calliope.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
* [[Fourth L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland]]
* [[Fourth L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland]]
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Latest revision as of 19:01, 10 December 2020

H.M.S. Calliope (1914)
Pendant Number: 76 (1914)
23 (Jan 1918)
78 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 1 Jan, 1914[3]
Launched: 17 Dec, 1914[4]
Commissioned: Jun, 1915[5]
Sold: 28 Aug, 1931[6]

H.M.S. Calliope was launched in 1914, one of two light cruisers of her class.

Service

In the Battle of Jutland, she was flagship of the Fourth Light Cruiser Squadron, screening the Battle Fleet.[7]

Calliope re-commissioned at Chatham on 19 May, 1924.[8]

Re-commissioned with reserve crew at the Nore on 1 April, 1927.[9]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 26 September, 1928 for duty with the Third Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean.[10]

Searchlights

Calliope served as a test platform for Newitt's Searchlight Control in 1915.[11]

Alterations

Calliope was fitted with a director in March, 1918. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[12]

At some point likely after the end of the war, she received a Dreyer Turret Control Table in her T.S..[13]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 48.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 48.
  7. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 221.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 220.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 221.
  11. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. p. 112.
  12. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  13. ↑ Pamphlet on the Turret Dreyer Table as fitted in the turrets of H.M. battleships and in the transmitting stations of certain cruisers, 1930. p. 4.
  14. ↑ Tweedie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 332.
  15. ↑ Tweedie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 332.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 392r.
  17. ↑ Le Mesurier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 56.
  18. ↑ Le Mesurier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 56.
  19. ↑ Bentinck Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 47.
  20. ↑ Bentinck Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 47.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 748.
  22. ↑ Compton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/247. f. 281.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 739.
  24. ↑ Compton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/247. f. 281.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 731.
  26. ↑ Paton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/60. f. 68.
  27. ↑ Wardle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 245.
  28. ↑ Wardle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 245.
  29. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/225. f. 225.
  30. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/225. f. 225.
  31. ↑ Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. Unnumbered folio.
  32. ↑ Day of month taken from predecessor. Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/225. f. 225.
  33. ↑ Inferred from successor. Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  34. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  35. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  36. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 221.
  37. ↑ Ford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 180.
  38. ↑ Ford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 180.
  39. ↑ Birkett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 518.
  40. ↑ Birkett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 518.
  41. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 220.
  42. ↑ Holbrook Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 219.
  43. ↑ Holbrook Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 219.
  44. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 221.
  45. ↑ Pridham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Book 9, f. 302.
  46. ↑ Pridham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Book 9, f. 302.
  47. ↑ Bower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/99. f. 222.
  48. ↑ Bower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/99. f. 222.
  49. ↑ Jermain Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. 212.
  50. ↑ Jermain Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. 212.

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.


Calliope Class Light Cruiser
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