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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
* {{CaptRN}} [[Charles Archibald Wise Wrightson]], 25 March, 1920.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'', (December 1920).  p. 763.</ref>
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* {{CaptRN}} [[Charles Archibald Wise Wrightson]], 25 March, 1920.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'', (December 1920).  p. 763.</ref>
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==Fire Control==
==Fire Control==

Revision as of 17:03, 28 April 2014

H.M.S. Dunedin (1918)
Pendant Number: 96 (Aug 1919)[1]
Builder: Armstrong[2]
Laid down: Nov, 1917[3]
Launched: 19 Nov, 1918[4]
Commissioned: 13 Sep, 1919[5]
Torpedoed: 24 Nov, 1941[6]
Fate: by U 124

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Fire Control

Listed in June 1918 as one of eight light cruisers to receive a Mark III* Dreyer Table, presumably in place at time of completion.[8]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 50.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 763.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  7. The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 763.
  8. Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. p. 3.

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.


Danae Class Light Cruiser
First Group
  Danae Dauntless Dragon  
Second Group
Delhi Dunedin Durban Despatch Diomede
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