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==Service==
Completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 25 February, 1913.{{NLApr14|p. 375}} Initially attached to the {{UK-BS|1}} Captain [[Arthur Allan Morison Duff|Arthur A. M. Duff]] took command the next month.  She was ordered to transfer to the {{UK-LCS|1}} on 1 July.{{NLJul13|p. 376}}  [[William Edmund Goodenough]] would become captain almost at the same time as this transfer.{{NLApr14|p. 375}}


===Battle of Jutland===
''Southampton'' was flagship of the {{UK-LCS|2}}, screening the battlecruisers under the command of Commodore [[William Edmund Goodenough]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 46}}
At about 10pm, ''Southampton'' and her squadron suddenly found themselves in a point-blank gun engagement with German light cruisers on their beam.  Casualties amongst her gun crews in their exposed positions were high.
The cruiser was equipped with {{Torp|21-in Mark II**|UK}}es, and fired one at high speed setting from the starboard tube at a gyro angle of 15&deg; left at 10.20 or 10.30pm (not clear in hand-corrected source) at a line of five enemy cruisers at 1,500 to 2,000 yards range.  Multiple observers felt it may have hit the foremost ship, whose searchlights went out.<ref>Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum.  (BTY ?/?), item 1.</ref>
===Post-War===
''Southampton'' recommissioned at Portsmouth on 20 May, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 865}}
Paid off into Reserve on 30 August, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 271}}


==Alterations==
==Alterations==
In October 1914, the ship was to be given 5 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.{{AWO1914|512 of 16 Oct, 1914}}


In October 1914, the ship was to be given 5 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.{{AWO1914|512 of 16 Oct, 1914}}
A detailed report from the [[Battle of Jutland]] makes it clear that the ship had some form of an elevation-only director at the time of the battle, though its use was as a resort for instances where the target could not be seen by the guns.<ref>Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY 6/6), item 1, sections 2 and 11.</ref>


''Southampton'' was fitted with a director in March, 1918.  This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.{{FCHMShips|pp. 11-12}}
One source, however, indicates that ''Southampton'' was only fitted with a director in March, 1918, almost certainly referring to a proper Vickers light director outfit.{{INF}} This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.{{FCHMShips|pp. 11-12}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
*{{CaptRN}} [[Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, First Baron Chatfield|A. Ernle M. Chatfield]], 24 September, 1912.<ref>Chatfield Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43}}. f. 346.</ref>
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*Captain [[William Edmund Goodenough]], July 1913.{{MackieRNW}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, First Baron Chatfield|nick=A. Ernle M. Chatfield|appt=24 September, 1912<ref>Chatfield Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43}}.  f. 346.</ref>|precBy=New Command|end=March, 1913<ref>Chatfield Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 346.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Halton S. Lecky]], December 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Allan Morison Duff|nick=Arthur A. M. Duff|appt=March, 1913{{NLJul13|p. 376}}}}
*Captain [[Basil Vernon Brooke|Basil V. Brooke]], 15 February, 1917.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 909.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Edmund Goodenough|nick=William E. Goodenough|appt=5 July, 1913{{NLDec16|p. 398''c''}}<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 433.</ref>|end=c. 6 June, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 433.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}} and in command of {{UK-LCS|1}}, then of {{UK-LCS|2}} from February, 1915}}
* Captain [[Theodore John Hallett]], 3 March, 1919.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'' (December, 1920).  p. 865.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Astley Astley-Rushton|nick=Edward A. Rushton|appt=17 June, 1916<ref>Astley-Rushton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 55.</ref>|end=8 August, 1916<ref>Astley-Rushton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 55.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Wilfred Allan Egerton]], October 1921.{{MackieRNW}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Edmund Goodenough|nick=William E. Goodenough|appt=21 June, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 433.</ref>|end=c. 5 November, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 433.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}} and in command of {{UK-LCS|2}}}}
*Captain [[Arthur Allan Morison Duff|Arthur A. M. Duff]], ?.{{FC}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Edmund Goodenough|nick=William E. Goodenough|appt=18 November, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 433.</ref>|end=5 December, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 433.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}} and in command of {{UK-LCS|2}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CaptRN}}|name=Halton Stirling Lecky|nick=Halton S. Lecky|appt=22 December, 1916<ref>Lecky Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/444.}} f. 513.  In our PDF for [[Benjamin Wingate Barrow]].</ref>|end=16 February, 1917<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/444.}} f. 513.  In our PDF for [[Benjamin Wingate Barrow]].</ref>|note=as Flag Captain to Commodore [[Cecil Foley Lambert|Lambert]]}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Basil Vernon Brooke|nick=Basil V. Brooke|appt=15 February, 1917{{NLDec18|p. 909}}|end=1 March, 1919}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Theodore John Hallett|nick=Theodore J. Hallett|appt=3 March, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 865}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Lawrence Walter Braithwaite|nick=Lawrence W. Braithwaite|appt=c. late 1919<ref>This Braithwaite Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/504.|D7576642}} f. 507.</ref>|end=November, 1921<ref>Braithwaite Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/504.|D7576642}} f. 507.</ref>|note=and as Chief of Staff to C-in-C, East Indies}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilfrid Allan Egerton|nick=Wilfrid A. Egerton|appt=21 October, 1921<ref>Egerton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 106.</ref>|end=October, 1923<ref>Egerton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 106.</ref>|note=as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to R/A [[Lewis Clinton-Baker]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Noel Frank Laurence|nick=Noel F. Laurence|appt=3 October, 1923{{NLJul24|p. 270}}|end=1924<ref>Laurence Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/175.|D7576654}} f. 579.</ref>|note=as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to R/A Herbert W. Richmond}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay|nick=The Hon. Alexander R. M. Ramsay|appt=1924<ref>Ramsay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.}} f. 210.</ref>|end=16 August, 1924<ref>Ramsay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.}} f. 210.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''I''', ''De.'')|name=Melville Adams Hawes|nick=Melville A. Hawes|appt=16 August, 1924<ref>Hawes Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/255.|}} f. 298.</ref>|end=late 1924<ref>Hawes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/255.|}} f. 298.</ref>|note=ended on paying off}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
{{WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Southampton_(1912)}}
{{refbegin}}
* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Southampton.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
* [[Second L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland]]
{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Southampton_(1912)}}
{{refend}}


==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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Latest revision as of 20:48, 6 September 2023

H.M.S. Southampton (1912)
Pendant Number: 89 (1914)
9A (Jan 1918)
35 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Laid down: 6 Apr, 1911[3]
Launched: 16 May, 1912[4]
Commissioned: Nov, 1912[5]
Sold:

Service

Completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 25 February, 1913.[6] Initially attached to the First Battle Squadron Captain Arthur A. M. Duff took command the next month. She was ordered to transfer to the First Light Cruiser Squadron on 1 July.[7] William Edmund Goodenough would become captain almost at the same time as this transfer.[8]

Battle of Jutland

Southampton was flagship of the Second Light Cruiser Squadron, screening the battlecruisers under the command of Commodore William Edmund Goodenough.[9]

At about 10pm, Southampton and her squadron suddenly found themselves in a point-blank gun engagement with German light cruisers on their beam. Casualties amongst her gun crews in their exposed positions were high.

The cruiser was equipped with 21-in Mark II** torpedoes, and fired one at high speed setting from the starboard tube at a gyro angle of 15° left at 10.20 or 10.30pm (not clear in hand-corrected source) at a line of five enemy cruisers at 1,500 to 2,000 yards range. Multiple observers felt it may have hit the foremost ship, whose searchlights went out.[10]

Post-War

Southampton recommissioned at Portsmouth on 20 May, 1919.[11]

Paid off into Reserve on 30 August, 1924.[12]

Alterations

In October 1914, the ship was to be given 5 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[13]

A detailed report from the Battle of Jutland makes it clear that the ship had some form of an elevation-only director at the time of the battle, though its use was as a resort for instances where the target could not be seen by the guns.[14]

One source, however, indicates that Southampton was only fitted with a director in March, 1918, almost certainly referring to a proper Vickers light director outfit.[Inference] This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[15]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 375.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 376.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 375.
  9. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
  10. ↑ Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY ?/?), item 1.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 865.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 271.
  13. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  14. ↑ Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY 6/6), item 1, sections 2 and 11.
  15. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  16. ↑ Chatfield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 346.
  17. ↑ Chatfield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 346.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 376.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 398c.
  20. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  21. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  22. ↑ Astley-Rushton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 55.
  23. ↑ Astley-Rushton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 55.
  24. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  25. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  26. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  27. ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  28. ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 513. In our PDF for Benjamin Wingate Barrow.
  29. ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 513. In our PDF for Benjamin Wingate Barrow.
  30. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 909.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
  32. ↑ This Braithwaite Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/504. f. 507.
  33. ↑ Braithwaite Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/504. f. 507.
  34. ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 106.
  35. ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 106.
  36. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 270.
  37. ↑ Laurence Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/175. f. 579.
  38. ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
  39. ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
  40. ↑ Hawes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 298.
  41. ↑ Hawes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 298.

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.


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