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==Service==
==Service==
Completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 25 February, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 375.</ref> 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.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 376.</ref>  [[William Edmund Goodenough]] would become captain almost at the same time as this transfer.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 375.</ref>
Completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 25 February, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 375.</ref> 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.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 376.</ref>  [[William Edmund Goodenough]] would become captain almost at the same time as this transfer.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 375.</ref>
===Battle of Jutland===
===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}}
''Southampton'' was flagship of the {{UK-LCS|2}}, screening the battlecruisers under the command of Commodore [[William Edmund Goodenough]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 46}}
She 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>


''Southampton'' recommissioned at Portsmouth on 20 May, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 865}}
''Southampton'' recommissioned at Portsmouth on 20 May, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 865}}
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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>
*{{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>
*Captain [[Arthur Allan Morison Duff|Arthur A. M. Duff]], March, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 376.</ref>
*Captain [[Arthur Allan Morison Duff|Arthur A. M. Duff]], March, 1913.{{NLJul13|p. 376}}
*Captain [[William Edmund Goodenough]], 5 July, 1913,<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 375.</ref> and at the [[Battle of Jutland]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 46}}
*Captain [[William Edmund Goodenough]], 5 July, 1913,{{NLApr14|p. 375}} and at the [[Battle of Jutland]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 46}}
*Captain [[Halton Stirling Lecky|Halton S. Lecky]], December 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
*Captain [[Halton Stirling Lecky|Halton S. Lecky]], December 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
*Captain [[Basil Vernon Brooke|Basil V. Brooke]], 15 February, 1917.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 909.</ref>
*Captain [[Basil Vernon Brooke|Basil V. Brooke]], 15 February, 1917.{{NLDec18|p. 909}}
* Captain [[Theodore John Hallett]], 3 March, 1919.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'' (December, 1920).  p. 865.</ref>
* Captain [[Theodore John Hallett]], 3 March, 1919.{{NLDec20|p. 865}}
* Captain [[Wilfred Allan Egerton]], October 1921.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Wilfred Allan Egerton]], October, 1921.{{MackieRNW}}


==See Also==
==See Also==
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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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Revision as of 23:54, 15 April 2014

H.M.S. Southampton (1912)
Pendant Number: 89 (1914)
9A (Jan 1918)
35 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown[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]

She 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]

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

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.[12]

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.[13]

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.[14]

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. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  13. ↑ Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY 6/6), item 1, sections 2 and 11.
  14. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  15. ↑ Chatfield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 346.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 376.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 375.
  18. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
  19. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 909.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
  22. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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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