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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 20:54, 3 November 2015

H.M.S. Durban (1919)
Pendant Number: 99 (Sep 1921)[1]
Builder: Scott[2]
Laid down: Jan, 1918[3]
Launched: 29 May, 1919[4]
Commissioned: Nov, 1921[5]
Scuttled: 9 Jun, 1944[6]
Fate: at Normandy

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Fire Control

Listed in June 1918 as one of 8 light cruisers to receive a Mark III* Dreyer Table, presumably in place at time of completion.[11]

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. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  7. ↑ Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 86.
  8. ↑ Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 86.
  9. ↑ Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
  10. ↑ Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
  11. ↑ 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
<– Ceres Class Minor Cruisers (UK) Capetown Class –>


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