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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar|nick=Kenneth G. B. Dewar|appt=February, 1923<ref>Dewar Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 59.</ref>|end=May, 1924<ref>Dewar Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 59.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar|nick=Kenneth G. B. Dewar|appt=February, 1923<ref>Dewar Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 59.</ref>|end=May, 1924<ref>Dewar Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 59.</ref>}} |
Revision as of 17:11, 26 July 2017
H.M.S. Capetown (1919) | |
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Pendant Number: | 88 (Nov 1919)[1] |
Builder: | Cammell Laird |
Laid down: | 23 Feb, 1918 |
Launched: | 18 Jun, 1919 |
Sold: | Apr, 1948 |
Service
Capetown re-commissioned at Devonport on 16 October, 1924.[2]
Re-commissioned on 31 December, 1929.[3]
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.[4]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Harold D. Briggs, 6 January, 1922 – 8 April, 1922 (for trials)
- Captain Edward R. Jones, 8 April, 1922[5]
- Captain Kenneth G. B. Dewar, February, 1923[6] – May, 1924[7]
- Captain George H. Knowles, 15 May, 1924[8][9] – June, 1926[10]
- Captain Oswald H. Dawson, 15 May, 1926[11] – 8 August, 1927[12]
- Captain The Hon. E. Rupert Drummond, July, 1927[13]
- Captain W. E. Campbell Tait, 5 July, 1929 – December, 1929
- Commander John B. Hughes, 19 December, 1929[14] – 26 September, 1932
- Captain Douglas A. Budgen, 17 July, 1934[15] – 8 June, 1936[16]
- Captain Cuthbert Coppinger, 8 June, 1936[17] – 10 October, 1938[18]
- Captain Henry C. Bovell, 28 September, 1938[19] – c. November, 1938[20]
- Captain Terence H. Back, July, 1939[21] – November, 1940[22]
- Captain Percival H. G. James, November, 1940[23] – April, 1941[24]
- Captain Percival H. G. James, September, 1941[25] – November, 1942[26]
- Captain George E. M. O'Donnell, 17 November, 1942[27] – 12 July, 1943[28] (vice a man with last name "James")
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 222.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 221.
- ↑ Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. p. 3.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 733.
- ↑ Dewar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 59.
- ↑ Dewar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 59.
- ↑ Knowles Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/52. f. 257.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 222.
- ↑ Knowles Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/52. f. 257.
- ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 384.
- ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 384.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 221.
- ↑ Budgen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/92/97. f. 97.
- ↑ Budgen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/267. f. 637.
- ↑ Coppinger Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52. f. 684.
- ↑ Coppinger Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52. f. 684.
- ↑ Bovell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/28. f. 28.
- ↑ Bovell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/28. f. 28.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ O'Donnell Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56. f. 14.
- ↑ O'Donnell Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56. f. 14.
Bibliography
- 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.
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