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Revision as of 12:03, 25 April 2016

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: 1 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.[12]

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. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 752.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 752.
  8. Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 86.
  9. Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 86.
  10. Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
  11. Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
  12. 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.


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