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Revision as of 21:02, 23 September 2012
H.M.S. Chatham (1911) | |
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Pendant Number: | 37 (1914) 38 (Jan 1918) 18 (Apr 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Chatham Royal Dockyard[2] |
Laid down: | 3 Jan, 1911[3] |
Launched: | 19 Nov, 1911[4] |
Commissioned: | Dec, 1912[5] |
Sold: | 13 Jul, 1926[6] |
Alterations
Chatham was fitted with a director in September, 1918. This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[7]
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Theodore J. Hallett, 1 January, 1918.[8]
- Captain Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe,
- Captain Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe,
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships, 1919. pp. 11-12.
- ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 756.
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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