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==Alterations== | ==Alterations== |
Revision as of 21:02, 23 September 2012
H.M.S. Centaur (1916) | |
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Pendant Number: | 36 (Sep 1915) 34 (Jan 1918) 10 (Apr 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Vickers[2] |
Ordered: | 1914-15 Programme[3] |
Laid down: | 24 Jan, 1915[4] |
Launched: | 6 Jan, 1916[5] |
Commissioned: | Aug, 1916[6] |
Sold: | Feb, 1934[7] |
Fate: | Broken up |
Alterations
Centaur and her sister Concord were among the first light cruisers to be completed with a director.[8] They also had the first Evershed Bearing Indicator installations for light cruisers, possibly upon completion.[9]
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Wion de M. Egerton, January, 1918.[10]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 48.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 60.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 60.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 60.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 60.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 60.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 60.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships, 1919. pp. 11-12.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships, 1919. p. 29.
- ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 754.
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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