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==Alterations==
==Alterations==
''Birkenhead'' had no Dreyer table.<ref>Absent from ''Handbook for Capt. F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables''.  p. 3.</ref>
''Birkenhead'' had no Dreyer table.{{DreyerH|omitted on p. 3}}


She was fitted with a director in July, 1917.  This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships, 1919''.  pp. 11-12.</ref>
She was fitted with a director in July, 1917.  This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.{{FCHMShips|pp. 11-12}}


==Captains==
==Captains==

Revision as of 16:26, 27 September 2012

H.M.S. Birkenhead (1915)
Pendant Number: 9A (1914)
15 (Jan 1918)
07 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Laid down: 27 Mar, 1914[3]
Launched: 18 Jan, 1915[4]
Commissioned: May, 1915[5]
Sold: 26 Oct, 1921[6]
Fate: Broken up

H.M.S. Birkenhead fought at the Battle of Jutland as part of the Third Light Cruiser Squadron.

Alterations

Birkenhead had no Dreyer table.[7]

She was fitted with a director in July, 1917. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 58.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 58.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 58.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  7. ↑ Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. omitted on p. 3.
  8. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  9. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 741.

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.


Birkenhead Class Light Cruiser
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