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*Captain [[Richard Webb]], 1 October, 1917.<ref>Webb Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 124.</ref>
*Captain [[Richard Webb]], 1 October, 1917.<ref>Webb Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 124.</ref>
*Captain [[Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson|Leonard A. B. Donaldson]], September, 1918.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 852.</ref>
*Captain [[Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson|Leonard A. B. Donaldson]], September, 1918.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 852.</ref>
*Captain [[Frederic Charles Dreyer|Frederic C. Dreyer]] as Commodore 2nd Class, 11 February, 1919.{{SMNLFeb19|p. 852}}
*Captain [[Oliver Elles Leggett|Oliver E. Leggett]], 11 February, 1919,<ref>''The Navy List'' (August, 1919).  p. 852.</ref> commissioning the ship at 0800 at Devonport.<ref>Ship's Logbook.  {{TNA|ADM 53/62665}}.</ref>
*Captain [[Oliver Elles Leggett|Oliver E. Leggett]], 11 February, 1919,<ref>''The Navy List'' (August, 1919).  p. 852.</ref> commissioning the ship at 0800 at Devonport.<ref>Ship's Logbook.  {{TNA|ADM 53/62665}}.</ref>
*{{CommRN}} [[Hartley R. G. Moore]], 11 March, 1920.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'', (December 1920).  p. 816.</ref> (in reserve at Rosyth).
*{{CommRN}} [[Hartley R. G. Moore]], 11 March, 1920.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'', (December 1920).  p. 816.</ref> (in reserve at Rosyth).

Revision as of 19:25, 6 January 2014

H.M.S. New Zealand (1911)
Pendant Number: 08 (1914)
90 (Jan 1918)
53 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield, Govan[2]
Ordered: 1908 Programme[3]
Laid down: 20 Jun, 1910[4]
Launched: 1 Jul, 1911[5]
Commissioned: 1912[6]
Sold: 19 Dec, 1922[7]
Fate: Scrapped


Service

She commissioned at Govan on 19 November, 1912 and completed to full crew at Devonport on 23 November.[8]

In 1913, she underwent a tour of her namesake homeland. On 16 August 1913, New Zealand called at Mazatlan and left on the 18th.[9] Her next call was Acapulco, where she arrived on the 21st and left the following day.[10] On the 23rd she stopped at Salina Cruz before leaving on the 25th.[11] She arrived at Panama City on the 29th.[12] On 8 September, she called at Callao,[13] and on the 17th, she arrived at Valparaiso.[14]

The New Zealand then travelled around the bottom of South America, and, having spent four days in Montevideo,[15] left there on the 7th.[16] On the 27th she arrived at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.[17] She arrived at Dominica on 3 November, the same day that the Suffolk, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher G. F. M. Cradock, and the Berwick arrived.[18] She arrived at Bermuda on the 13th, and left on the 18th.[19] She arrived at Halifax on the 21st.[20] She left Halifax for Portsmouth on 30 November, having to make the voyage on oil fuel owing to the non-arrival of a collier.[21]

There was apparently some difficulty in keeping her equipped with fresh guns. In October 1915, an entirely new set were desired and only five were immediately available. At the Battle of Jutland, the right gun in "Q" turret had a 30 foot crack in it, but was fired nonetheless.[22]

Battle of Heligoland Bight

Main article: H.M.S. New Zealand at the Battle of Heligoland Bight

Battle of Jutland

Main article: H.M.S. New Zealand at the Battle of Jutland

Post-Jutland

New Zealand went into Rosyth dockyard for refit during November, 1916.[23] While there, all her 12-inch guns were replaced.[24]

Post-War

Recommissioned at Rosyth with a Reserve complement on 8 June, 1920.[25]

Alterations

Habitability

In October 1914, the ship was to be given 12 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[26]

Turrets

In October 1914, additions of screened-in positions within her "A" turret required her existing alternative plan for loading to be abolished, and required further alterations to support a new fall-back means of loading.[27]

Torpedoes

In December 1912, the Admiralty imposed a limit of gyro angle settings of 20 degrees in ten ships. This restriction was lifted just before the war.[28]

Radio

Sometime before 1913, she may have also had a Type 3 Battleship Auxiliary set, but it was to be replaced by a Type 10 Cruiser Auxiliary set.[29]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Gunnery Record

ROUNDS FIRED BY NEW ZEALAND. TURRET GUNS
OCCASION "A" "P" "Q" "X" TOTAL
R. L. R. L. R. L. R. L.
Woolwich (proof) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 24
Woolwich (full) 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 16
Peace (full) 13 14 16 13 12 13 13 11 103
Peace (¾) 24 24 22 21 22 22 23 25 183
War practise (full) 15 15 14 13 8 12 16 16 109
War practise (¾) 8 9 7 9 9 8 9 8 67
Heligoland (full) 17 17 5 14 9 10 8 3 83
Dogger Bank (full) 15 17 15 18 14 14 24 24 141
Dogger Bank (¾) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
Jutland (full) 53 47 65 64 51 54 52 44 430
Jutland (¾) — — 1 1 — — — — 2
—
Equivalent full 129¼ 126½ 131 138 110 118¾ 129¼ 114½ 997¼
№ of rounds 151 149 146 161 131 139 151 137 1,165
Rounds in action 86 82 87 98 75 79 85 72 664

Alterations

In 1913, New Zealand was slated as part of the seventeen ship order to receive a director. It was fitted sometime between May and December, 1915.[38]

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. pp. 26-7.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 35.
  8. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 350.
  9. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 20 August, 1913. Issue 40295, col E, p. 10.
  10. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 23 August, 1913. Issue 40298, col F, p. 8.
  11. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 26 August, 1913. Issue 40300, col C, p. 2.
  12. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 1 September, 1913. Issue 40305, col C, p. 3.
  13. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 10 September, 1913. Issue 40313, col F, p. 3.
  14. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 19 September, 1913. Issue 40321, col E, p. 2.
  15. ↑ "The News Zealand at Montevideo" (News in Brief). The Times. Friday, 3 October, 1913. Issue 40333, col D, p. 5.
  16. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 8 October, 1913. Issue 40337, col C, p. 10.
  17. ↑ "News in Brief" (News in Brief). The Times. Tuesday, 28 October, 1913. Issue 40354, col C, p. 7.
  18. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 5 November, 1913. Issue 40361, col C, p. 13.
  19. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 21 November, 1913. Issue 40375, col F, p. 4.
  20. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 24 November, 1913. Issue 40377, col B, p. 5.
  21. ↑ "News in Brief" (News in Brief). The Times. Tuesday, 2 December, 1913. Issue 40384, col F, p. 7.
  22. ↑ At The National Archives. ADM 137/1645, pp. 41, 95.
  23. ↑ Roberts. Battlecruisers. p. 123.
  24. ↑ See Telegram G.31090/16. 5 October, 1916. The National Archives. ADM 116/1645. f. 95.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 816.
  26. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  27. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 525 of 20 Oct, 1914.
  28. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 207 of 31 July 1914.
  29. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913. W/T Appendix, p. 13.
  30. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 361.
  31. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1915). p. 396f.
  32. ↑ Webb Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 124.
  33. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 852.
  34. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 852.
  35. ↑ The Navy List (August, 1919). p. 852.
  36. ↑ Ship's Logbook. The National Archives. ADM 53/62665.
  37. ↑ The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 816.
  38. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 9-11.

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