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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
*{{CaptRN}} [[Arthur Cavenagh Leveson|Arthur C. Leveson]], 17 January, 1911.<ref>Roberts.  ''Battlecruisers''.  p. 122.</ref>  
*{{CaptRN}} [[Arthur Cavenagh Leveson|Arthur C. Leveson]], 17 January, 1911.<ref>Leveson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 472.</ref>
*Captain [[Charles FitzGerald Sowerby|Charles F. Sowerby]], 24 February, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1914).  p. 335.</ref>
*Captain [[Charles FitzGerald Sowerby|Charles F. Sowerby]], 24 February, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1914).  p. 335.</ref>


Revision as of 13:52, 7 August 2013

H.M.S. Indefatigable (1909)
Pendant Number: 13 (1914)[1]
Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard[2]
Ordered: 1908 Programme[3]
Laid down: 23 Feb, 1909[4]
Launched: 28 Oct, 1909[5]
Commissioned: 1911[6]
Sunk: 31 May, 1916[7]
Fate: at the Battle of Jutland


Construction

Indefatigable was laid down in Devonport Royal Dockyard on 23 February, 1909 by Mrs. Cross, wife of Vice-Admiral Charles H. Cross, the Admiral Superintendent.[8] She launched on Thursday, 28 October, by Lady Loreburn. Present were a large number of naval, military and local dignitaries. International guests were Captain Koerver, the German Naval Attaché, and Captains Petroff, Vlatkin, and Leskoff of the Imperial Russian Navy cruisers Diana, Aurora and Bogatyr. At five minutes to four, Lady Loreburn christened the ship with a bottle of Australian wine. She then severed a ceremonial cord and to the strains of "Rule Britannia" the Indefatigable went down the slipway.[9] Captain Arthur C. Leveson commissioned the Indefatigable at Devonport on 24 February, 1911.[10]

Service

She recommissioned at Devonport on 17th June, 1913 for service with the First Battle Cruiser Squadron.[11]

Jutland

Official reports

Boats

In July 1914, the ship was appropriated 42-foot motor launch No. 262, though the boat was not yet delivered from the contractor.[12]

Alterations

In 1913, Indefatigable was slated as part of the seventeen ship order to receive a director. It was fitted sometime between December, 1915 and the Battle of Jutland.[13]

In 1910, it was decided that the telaupad control of the secondary battery in Neptune, Indefatigable, Hercules and Colossus should be replaced with Rudolph voicepipes. Other ships in the Home Fleet had also been experimentally fitted, but a report on a final decision was still pending.[14]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 35.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 26.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 26.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 26.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 35.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 26.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 35.
  8. ↑ "The Indefatigable" (News). The Times. Friday, 24 February, 1911. Issue 39517, col E, p. 6.
  9. ↑ "Launch of Warships" (News). The Times. Friday, 29 October, 1909. Issue 39103, col F, p. 4.
  10. ↑ "The Indefatigable".
  11. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 328.
  12. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 122 of 10 July, 1914.
  13. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 9-10.
  14. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1910. p. 149. (A.L.G. 12731/10/18960 of 16 Aug 1910).
  15. ↑ Leveson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 472.
  16. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 335.

Bibliography


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