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{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Henry Evelyn Charles Blagrove|nick=H. Evelyn C. Blagrove|appt=10 February, 1924<ref>Blagrove Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51.|}} f. 47.</ref>|end=21 February, 1924<ref>Inferred from successor's appointment.  Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Henry Evelyn Charles Blagrove|nick=H. Evelyn C. Blagrove|appt=10 February, 1924<ref>Blagrove Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51.|}} f. 47.</ref>|end=21 February, 1924<ref>Inferred from successor's appointment.  Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Nicholas Edward Archdale|nick=Nicholas E. Archdale|appt=21 February, 1924<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>|end=26 February, 1925<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Nicholas Edward Archdale|nick=Nicholas E. Archdale|appt=21 February, 1924<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>|end=26 February, 1925<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wellwood George Courtenay Maxwell|nick=Wellwood G. C. Maxwell|appt=27 February, 1925{{MackieRNW}}<ref>Day of month inferred from Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wellwood George Courtenay Maxwell|nick=Wellwood G. C. Maxwell|appt=26 February, 1925<ref>Maxwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603952}} f. 451.</ref>|ass=March, 1925<ref>Maxwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603952}} f. 451.</ref>|end=April, 1927<ref>Maxwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603952}} f. 451.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Jermyn Landon|nick=Arthur J. Landon|appt=March, 1927{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Jermyn Landon|nick=Arthur J. Landon|appt=March, 1927{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Norman Atherton Wodehouse|nick=Norman A. Wodehouse|appt=17 December, 1928<ref>Wodehouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|}}  Unnumbered folio.</ref>|end=5 November, 1929<ref>Wodehouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.}}  Unnumbered folio.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Norman Atherton Wodehouse|nick=Norman A. Wodehouse|appt=17 December, 1928<ref>Wodehouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|}}  Unnumbered folio.</ref>|end=5 November, 1929<ref>Wodehouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.}}  Unnumbered folio.</ref>}}

Revision as of 19:14, 25 May 2015

H.M.S. Ceres (1917)
Pendant Number: 66 (1914)
36 (Jan 1918)
58 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown[2]
Ordered: Mar/Apr 1916[3]
Laid down: 11 Jul, 1916[4]
Launched: 24 Mar, 1917[5]
Commissioned: Jun, 1917[6]
Sold: 5 Apr, 1946[7]
Fate: Broken up Hughes Bolckow[8]

Service

She recommissioned on 1 November, 1920.[9]

Alterations

Ceres was fitted with a director in June, 1917. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[10]

Ceres was one of just six light cruisers listed as having a Turret Control Table in her TS in June 1918. If and when this was provided is uncertain.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 61.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 61.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 61.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 744.
  10. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  11. ↑ Handbook for Capt. F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables. p. 3.
  12. ↑ Tomlin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 52.
  13. ↑ Tomlin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 52.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392h.
  15. ↑ Meade Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 177.
  16. ↑ Meade Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 177.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 755.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 744.
  19. ↑ Im Thurn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 188.
  20. ↑ Im Thurn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 188.
  21. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. ↑ Day of month taken from predecessor. Im Thurn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 188.
  23. ↑ Blagrove Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 47.
  24. ↑ Inferred from successor's appointment. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  25. ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  26. ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  27. ↑ Maxwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 451.
  28. ↑ Maxwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 451.
  29. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  30. ↑ Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
  31. ↑ Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
  32. ↑ Hynes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52. f. 395.
  33. ↑ Hynes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52. f. 395.

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, 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.
  • 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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