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'''July, 1914'''<ref>Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum.  [BRG 1/1]</ref>
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The squadron was:<ref>Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum.  [BRG 1/1]</ref>
  
 
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Attached to the [[Battle Cruiser Fleet]].<ref>''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' (November, 1915).  p. 11.</ref>
 
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The squadron was one of three screening the battlecruisers:{{UKJutlandOD|p. 33, 46}}
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* {{UK-Galatea}}, [[Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair, Twelfth Laird of Freswick|Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair]] ({{Com2RN}})
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'''July, 1918'''<ref>''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' (July, 1911).  p. 11.</ref>
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<br>The Squadron is still assigned to screen the [[Battle Cruiser Force]].
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The Squadron is still assigned to screen the [[Battle Cruiser Force]].<ref>''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' (July, 1911).  p. 11.</ref>
 
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'''November, 1918'''<ref>''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' (November, 1911).  p. 11.</ref>
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==See Also==
 
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==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 17:26, 24 September 2013

Rear-Admirals and Commodores Commanding

Dates of appointment given:

History

July, 1914

The squadron was:[4]

Outbreak of War

Two additional light cruisers have reinforced the squadron.[5][6]

November, 1915

Attached to the Battle Cruiser Fleet.[7]

Battle of Jutland

Main article: First L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland

The squadron was one of three screening the battlecruisers:[8]

17 November, 1917

At the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight[9]

Screened by:

July, 1918

The Squadron is still assigned to screen the Battle Cruiser Force.[10]

November, 1918

No change since July.[11]

Drill and Practice

In 1917, the squadron fired 56 practice torpedoes of which 45 or 80% were judged to be likely to endanger the enemy.[12]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (December, 1914). p. 5.
  2. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (March, 1915). p. 6.
  3. ↑ "Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist." The National Archives. ADM 6/461. ["Squadrons."] p. 24.
  4. ↑ Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
  5. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 440.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 15.
  7. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1915). p. 11.
  8. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 33, 46.
  9. ↑ Naval Operations. Vol. V. pp. 168-169.
  10. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (July, 1911). p. 11.
  11. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1911). p. 11.
  12. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 121.

Bibliography


Light Cruiser Squadrons of the Royal Navy
First Light Cruiser Squadron | Second Light Cruiser Squadron | Third Light Cruiser Squadron | Fourth Light Cruiser Squadron | Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron | Sixth Light Cruiser Squadron | Seventh Light Cruiser Squadron | Eighth Light Cruiser Squadron
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