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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Clive Rawlings|nick=Henry C. Rawlings|appt=15 November, 1928<ref>Rawlings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/96.|D7604000}} f. 500.</ref>|end=17 August, 1931<ref>Rawlings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/96.|D7604000}} f. 500.</ref>|note=initially for trials, later as Flag Captain to Henley|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Don Oliver|nick=Robert D. Oliver|appt=|end=24 November, 1942<ref>Young-Jamieson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/44.|D7605990}}  f. 44.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Don Oliver|nick=Robert D. Oliver|appt=|end=24 November, 1942<ref>Young-Jamieson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/44.|D7605990}}  f. 44.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Douglas Young-Jamieson|nick=Douglas Young-Jamieson|appt=24 November, 1942<ref>Young-Jamieson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/44.|D7605990}}  f. 44.</ref>|end=18 June, 1943<ref>Young-Jamieson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/44.|D7605990}}  f. 44.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Douglas Young-Jamieson|nick=Douglas Young-Jamieson|appt=24 November, 1942<ref>Young-Jamieson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/44.|D7605990}}  f. 44.</ref>|end=18 June, 1943<ref>Young-Jamieson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/44.|D7605990}}  f. 44.</ref>}}

Revision as of 19:48, 4 July 2016

H.M.S. Devonshire (1927)
Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 16 Mar, 1926[2]
Launched: 22 Oct, 1927[3]
Completed: 18 Mar, 1929[4]
Broken up: 1954[5]

H.M.S. Devonshire was one of four London Class cruisers completed for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s.

There was an earlier armoured cruiser named H.M.S. Devonshire that fought in the Great War.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
  6. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  7. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  8. ↑ Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.
  9. ↑ Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.
  10. ↑ Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.

Bibliography


London Class Heavy Cruiser
  Devonshire London Shropshire Sussex  
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