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|laid=28 Dec, 1922{{Conways1922|p. 14}}
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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Rodney''''' was one of two [[Nelson Class Battleship (1925)|''Nelson'' Class dreadnoughts]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Rodney''''' was one of two [[Nelson Class Battleship (1925)|''Nelson'' Class dreadnoughts]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].


==Service==
==Service==
She was grounded on 9 October, 1935 in circumstances involving another vessel, M.V. ''Atlas''.  Captain Custance was faulted for the misfortune.<ref>Custance Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 34.</ref>
''Rodney'' was commissioned at Devonport on 7 December, 1927.{{NLFeb29|pp. 264-5}}
 
She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 16 April, 1930.{{NLJul31|p. 266}}
 
She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 12 April, 1932 to serve with the {{UK-BS|2}} of the Home Fleet.{{NLJan33|p. 268}}
 
Re-commissioned at Devonport on 31 August, 1934.{{NLJul37|p. 269}}
 
She was grounded on 9 October, 1935 in circumstances involving another vessel, M.V. ''Atlas''.  Captain [[Wilfred Neville Custance|Custance]] was faulted for the misfortune.<ref>Custance Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 34.</ref>


==Captains==
==Captains==
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Rodney''" nat="UK">
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Rodney''" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Karslake Kitson|nick=Henry K. Kitson|appt=20 May, 1927<ref>Kitson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 186.</ref>|end=21 April, 1928<ref>Kitson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 186.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Karslake Kitson|nick=Henry K. Kitson|appt=20 May, 1927{{NLJul27|p. 265}}<ref>Kitson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 186.</ref>|end=21 April, 1928<ref>Kitson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 186.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis William Loftus Tottenham|nick=Francis W. L. Tottenham|appt=April, 1928{{MackieRNW}}|end=December, 1929{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis William Loftus Tottenham|nick=Francis W. L. Tottenham|appt=21 April, 1928<ref>Tottenham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/91/26.|}} f. 26.</ref>{{NLFeb29|p. 264}}|end=15 December, 1929<ref>Tottenham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/91/26.|}} f. 26.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Andrew Browne Cunningham, First Viscount Cunningham|nick=Andrew B. Cunningham|appt=December, 1929{{MackieRNW}}|end=December, 1930{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Andrew Browne Cunningham, First Viscount Cunningham|nick=Andrew B. Cunningham|appt=December, 1929{{MackieRNW}}|end=December, 1930{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Roger Mowbray Bellairs|nick=Roger M. Bellairs|appt=16 December, 1930<ref>Bellairs Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} Unnumbered folio.</ref>|end=c. April, 1932<ref>Superseded that month.  Tovey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 131.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Roger Mowbray Bellairs|nick=Roger M. Bellairs|appt=16 December, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 265}}<ref>Bellairs Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. ?.</ref>|end=c. April, 1932<ref>Superseded that month.  Tovey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 131.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Cronyn Tovey|nick=John C. Tovey|appt=April, 1932<ref>Tovey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 131.</ref>|end=31 August, 1934<ref>Tovey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 131.</ref><ref>Day of month taken from Custance Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 34.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Cronyn Tovey|nick=John C. Tovey|appt=12 April, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 267}}<ref>Tovey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 131.</ref>|end=31 August, 1934<ref>Tovey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 131.</ref><ref>Day of month taken from Custance Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 34.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilfred Neville Custance|nick=Wilfred N. Custance|appt=31 August, 1934<ref>Custance Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 34.</ref>|end=February, 1936<ref>Custance Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 34.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to R/A Ramsey from 6 January, 1936}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilfred Neville Custance|nick=Wilfred N. Custance|appt=31 August, 1934<ref>Custance Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 34.</ref>|end=February, 1936<ref>Custance Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 34.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to R/A Ramsey from 6 January, 1936}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Jock Whitworth|nick=William J. Whitworth|appt=21 February, 1936<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.|D7576669}} f. 117.</ref>|end=25 July, 1936<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.|D7576669}} f. 117.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain to R/A of illegible Battle Squadron}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Jock Whitworth|nick=William J. Whitworth|appt=21 February, 1936<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.|D7576669}} f. 117.</ref>|end=25 July, 1936<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.|D7576669}} f. 117.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain to R/A of illegible Battle Squadron}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Ronald Hamilton Curzon Hallifax|nick=Ronald H. C. Hallifax|appt=July, 1936{{MackieRNW}}|end=August, 1938{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Ronald Hamilton Curzon Hallifax|nick=Ronald H. C. Hallifax|appt=25 July, 1936{{NLJul37|p. 269}}|end=16 August, 1938|note=and as Flag Captain to Admiral Backhouse}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Neville Syfret|nick=Edward N. Syfret|appt=August, 1938{{MackieRNW}}|end=November, 1939{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Neville Syfret|nick=Edward N. Syfret|appt=15 August, 1938{{NavAppts|2 July 1938, p. 18}}|end=21 November, 1939|note=and as Flag Captain and C.O.S. to R/A 2BS v. Cantlie on transfer of flag}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton|nick=Frederick H. G. Dalrymple-Hamilton|appt=November, 1939{{MackieRNW}}|end=July, 1941{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton|nick=Frederick H. G. Dalrymple-Hamilton|appt=21 November, 1939|end=July, 1941}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=James William Rivett-Carnac|nick=James W. Rivett-Carnac|appt=July, 1941{{MackieRNW}}|end=July, 1943{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=James William Rivett-Carnac|nick=James W. Rivett-Carnac|appt=14 July, 1941<ref>Rivett-Carnac Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/330.|}} f. 687.</ref>|end=July, 1943{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Robert O'Brien FitzRoy|nick=Robert O'B. FitzRoy|appt=July, 1943{{MackieRNW}}|end=January, 1946{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Robert Oliver FitzRoy|nick=Robert O. FitzRoy|appt=10 September, 1943{{UBAlly|36}}|end=December, 1945{{UBAlly|36}}}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>


Latest revision as of 00:51, 23 March 2021

H.M.S. Rodney (1925)
Pendant Number: 29[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Laid down: 28 Dec, 1922[3]
Launched: 17 Dec, 1925[4]
Commissioned: Nov, 1927[5]
Broken up: 1948[6]

H.M.S. Rodney was one of two Nelson Class dreadnoughts completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Rodney was commissioned at Devonport on 7 December, 1927.[7]

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 16 April, 1930.[8]

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 12 April, 1932 to serve with the Second Battle Squadron of the Home Fleet.[9]

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 31 August, 1934.[10]

She was grounded on 9 October, 1935 in circumstances involving another vessel, M.V. Atlas. Captain Custance was faulted for the misfortune.[11]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). pp. 264-5.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 266.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 268.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 269.
  11. ↑ Custance Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 34.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 265.
  13. ↑ Kitson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 186.
  14. ↑ Kitson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 186.
  15. ↑ Tottenham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91/26. f. 26.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 264.
  17. ↑ Tottenham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91/26. f. 26.
  18. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 265.
  21. ↑ Bellairs Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
  22. ↑ Superseded that month. Tovey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 131.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 267.
  24. ↑ Tovey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 131.
  25. ↑ Tovey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 131.
  26. ↑ Day of month taken from Custance Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 34.
  27. ↑ Custance Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 34.
  28. ↑ Custance Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 34.
  29. ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
  30. ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 269.
  32. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 2 July 1938, p. 18.
  33. ↑ Rivett-Carnac Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/330. f. 687.
  34. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  35. ↑ Uboat.net page on the man.
  36. ↑ Uboat.net page on the man.

Bibliography


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