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Latest revision as of 00:51, 23 March 2021

H.M.S. Rodney (1925)
Pendant Number: 29[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Laid down: 28 Dec, 1922[3]
Launched: 17 Dec, 1925[4]
Commissioned: Nov, 1927[5]
Broken up: 1948[6]

H.M.S. Rodney was one of two Nelson Class dreadnoughts completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Rodney was commissioned at Devonport on 7 December, 1927.[7]

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 16 April, 1930.[8]

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 12 April, 1932 to serve with the Second Battle Squadron of the Home Fleet.[9]

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 31 August, 1934.[10]

She was grounded on 9 October, 1935 in circumstances involving another vessel, M.V. Atlas. Captain Custance was faulted for the misfortune.[11]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 14.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). pp. 264-5.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 266.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 268.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 269.
  11. ↑ Custance Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 34.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 265.
  13. ↑ Kitson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 186.
  14. ↑ Kitson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 186.
  15. ↑ Tottenham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91/26. f. 26.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 264.
  17. ↑ Tottenham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91/26. f. 26.
  18. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 265.
  21. ↑ Bellairs Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
  22. ↑ Superseded that month. Tovey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 131.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 267.
  24. ↑ Tovey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 131.
  25. ↑ Tovey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 131.
  26. ↑ Day of month taken from Custance Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 34.
  27. ↑ Custance Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 34.
  28. ↑ Custance Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 34.
  29. ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
  30. ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 269.
  32. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 2 July 1938, p. 18.
  33. ↑ Rivett-Carnac Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/330. f. 687.
  34. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  35. ↑ Uboat.net page on the man.
  36. ↑ Uboat.net page on the man.

Bibliography


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