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At the end of 1920, she was at reduced complement.{{NLJan21|p. 745}}
At the end of 1920, she was at reduced complement.{{NLJan21|p. 745}}
''Champion'' paid off into dockyard control at Portsmouth on 3 October, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 224}}
She was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 7 May, 1925 for use as a Gun and Torpedo School Cruiser.{{NLJan33|p. 222}}
Paid off into Dockyard Control at Portsmouth on 14 February, 1934.{{NLJul34|p. 222}}


==Alterations==
==Alterations==
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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=November, 1915{{MackieRNW}}|end=April, 1917<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/89.}} f. 154.</ref>|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]]|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=12 November, 1915{{NLOct16|p. 393}}|end=April, 1917<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/89.}} f. 154.</ref>|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]]|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hugh Justin Tweedie|nick=Hugh J. Tweedie|appt=April, 1917{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hugh Justin Tweedie|nick=Hugh J. Tweedie|appt=April, 1917<ref>Tweedie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 332.</ref>|end=November, 1917<ref>Tweedie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 332.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D) of {{UK-DF|13}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton|nick=Arthur B. S. Dutton|appt=November, 1917{{NLFeb19|p. 755}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton|nick=Arthur B. S. Dutton|appt=November, 1917{{NLFeb19|p. 755}}<ref>Dutton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7603013}} f. 258.</ref>|end=8 April, 1919<ref>Dutton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7603013}} f. 258.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|13}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster|nick=Forster D. Arnold-Forster|appt=7 April, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 744}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster|nick=Forster D. Arnold-Forster|appt=7 April, 1919<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>{{NLDec20|p. 744}}|end=4 April, 1921<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Gregory Gonville Cuff Wood-Martin|nick=Gregory G. C. Wood-Martin|appt=April, 1921{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Gregory Gonville Cuff Wood-Martin|nick=Gregory G. C. Wood-Martin|appt=4 April, 1921<ref>Wood-Martin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/371.}} f. 420.</ref>|end=4 May, 1922<ref>Wood-Martin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/371.}} f. 420.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Patrick Edward Parker|nick=Patrick E. Parker|appt=May, 1922{{MackieRNW}}{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Patrick Edward Parker|nick=Patrick E. Parker|appt=4 May, 1922<ref>Parker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46}} f. 16.</ref>|end=5 April, 1923<ref>Parker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46}} f. 16.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Everard John Hardman-Jones|nick=Everard J. Hardman-Jones|appt=April, 1923{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Everard John Hardman-Jones|nick=Everard J. Hardman-Jones|appt=4 April, 1923<ref>Hardman-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603658}} f. 152.</ref>|end=9 May, 1924<ref>Hardman-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603658}} f. 152.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Errol Manners|nick=Errol Manners|appt=May, 1925{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Dudley Burton Napier North|nick=Dudley B. N. North|appt=9 May, 1924<ref>North Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.}} f. 144.</ref>|end=23 September, 1924<ref>North Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.}} f. 144.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Stewart Gordon Fraser|nick=John S. G. Fraser|appt=December, 1925{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Edward Byrne|nick=Francis E. Byrne|appt=4 April, 1925|end=10 April, 1925|note=for trials}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Harold Young|nick=John H. Young|appt=November, 1927{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Dominick Burke|nick=Charles D. Burke|appt=7 May, 1925<ref>Burke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 138.</ref>|end=12 May, 1925<ref>Burke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 138.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Eric Ritchie Bent|nick=Eric R. Bent|appt=October, 1928{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Errol Manners|nick=Errol Manners|appt=12 May, 1925|end=19 December, 1925}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Richard Martin Welby|nick=Richard M. Welby|appt=October, 1929{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Stewart Gordon Fraser|nick=John S. G. Fraser|appt=19 December, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 224}}<ref>Fraser Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 584.</ref>|end=1 November, 1926<ref>Fraser Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 584.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Geoffrey Robert Sladen Watkins|nick=Geoffrey R. S. Watkins|appt=April, 1930{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Richard Sawbridge|nick=Henry R. Sawbridge|appt=11 November, 1926<ref>Sawbridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/290.|}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJul27|p. 224}}|end=11 November, 1927<ref>Sawbridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/290.|}} f. ?.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Norman Atherton Wodehouse|nick=Norman A. Wodehouse|appt=28 April, 1931<ref>Wodehouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/150.}}  Unnumbered folio.</ref>|end=12 December, 1931<ref>Wodehouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/150.}}  Unnumbered folio.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Harold Young|nick=John H. Young|appt=11 November, 1927<ref>Young Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/25.}} f. 429.</ref>|end=1 November, 1928<ref>Young Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/25.}} f. 429.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Maitland Walter Sabine Boucher|nick=Maitland W. S. Boucher|appt=December, 1931{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Eric Ritchie Bent|nick=Eric R. Bent|appt=17 October, 1928<ref>Bent Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51.|}} f. 260.</ref>|end=18 October, 1929<ref>Bent Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51.|}} f. 260.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Malcolm Peters|nick=Arthur M. Peters|appt=December, 1932{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Richard Martin Welby|nick=Richard M. Welby|appt=18 October, 1929<ref>Welby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/220.|D7604632}} f. 284.</ref>|end=24 April, 1930<ref>Welby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/220.|D7604632}} f. 284.</ref>|note=found dead aboard, apparently by suicide}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Douglas Faviell|nick=Douglas Faviell|appt=24 April, 1930|end=28 April, 1930|note=lent, temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Geoffrey Robert Sladen Watkins|nick=Geoffrey R. S. Watkins|appt=28 April, 1930<ref>Watkins Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/154.|D7576683}} f. 239.</ref>|end=28 April, 1931<ref>Watkins Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/154.|D7576683}} f. 239.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Norman Atherton Wodehouse|nick=Norman A. Wodehouse|appt=28 April, 1931<ref>Wodehouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/150.}}  f. ?.</ref>|end=12 December, 1931<ref>Wodehouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/150.}}  f. ?.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Maitland Walter Sabine Boucher|nick=Maitland W. S. Boucher|appt=21 December, 1931<ref>Boucher Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/63.|D7605150}} f. 421.</ref>|end=5 December, 1932<ref>Boucher Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/63.|D7605150}} f. 421.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Malcolm Peters|nick=Arthur M. Peters|appt=5 December, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 222}}|end=1933}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>


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Latest revision as of 01:40, 5 April 2024

H.M.S. Champion (1915)
Pendant Number: C8 (1914)
37 (Jan 1918)
25 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Company[2]
Laid down: 9 Mar, 1914[3]
Launched: 29 May, 1915[4]
Commissioned: Dec, 1915[5]
Sold: 28 Jul, 1934[6]

H.M.S. Champion was launched in 1915, the second of two light cruisers of the Calliope class.

Service

In February, 1916, Champion joined the Second Light Cruiser Squadron, responsible for supporting the Battle Cruiser Fleet.[7]

In May, 1916, Champion was assigned as the flotilla cruiser for the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla,[8] leading twelve destroyers at the Battle of Jutland as it screened the First Battle Cruiser Squadron.[9][10]

At the end of 1920, she was at reduced complement.[11]

Champion paid off into dockyard control at Portsmouth on 3 October, 1924.[12]

She was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 7 May, 1925 for use as a Gun and Torpedo School Cruiser.[13]

Paid off into Dockyard Control at Portsmouth on 14 February, 1934.[14]

Alterations

Champion was fitted with a director in January, 1918. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[15]

At some point likely after the end of the war, she received a Dreyer Turret Control Table in her TS.[16]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 48.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 48.
  7. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1916). p. 11.
  8. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (May, 1916). p. 12.
  9. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume III. p. 430.
  10. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 745.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 224.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 222.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 222.
  15. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  16. ↑ Pamphlet on the Turret Dreyer Table as fitted in the turrets of H.M. battleships and in the transmitting stations of certain cruisers, 1930. p. 4.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 393.
  18. ↑ Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/89. f. 154.
  19. ↑ Tweedie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 332.
  20. ↑ Tweedie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 332.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 755.
  22. ↑ Dutton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 258.
  23. ↑ Dutton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 258.
  24. ↑ Arnold-Forster Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/166. f. 186.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 744.
  26. ↑ Arnold-Forster Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/166. f. 186.
  27. ↑ Wood-Martin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/371. f. 420.
  28. ↑ Wood-Martin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/371. f. 420.
  29. ↑ Parker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46 f. 16.
  30. ↑ Parker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46 f. 16.
  31. ↑ Hardman-Jones Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 152.
  32. ↑ Hardman-Jones Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 152.
  33. ↑ North Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 144.
  34. ↑ North Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 144.
  35. ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
  36. ↑ Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
  37. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 224.
  38. ↑ Fraser Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 584.
  39. ↑ Fraser Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 584.
  40. ↑ Sawbridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/290. f. ?.
  41. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 224.
  42. ↑ Sawbridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/290. f. ?.
  43. ↑ Young Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/25. f. 429.
  44. ↑ Young Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/25. f. 429.
  45. ↑ Bent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 260.
  46. ↑ Bent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 260.
  47. ↑ Welby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/220. f. 284.
  48. ↑ Welby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/220. f. 284.
  49. ↑ Watkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/154. f. 239.
  50. ↑ Watkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/154. f. 239.
  51. ↑ Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/150. f. ?.
  52. ↑ Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/150. f. ?.
  53. ↑ Boucher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/63. f. 421.
  54. ↑ Boucher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/63. f. 421.
  55. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 222.

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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