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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment given:
Dates of appointment given:
* Captain [[Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe]], July 1912-May 1916.<ref>[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf  Royal Navy Warships]</ref>
* {{CaptRN}} [[Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe]], July 1912.{{MackieRNW}}
*Captain [[Arthur Bromley, Eighth Baronet|Arthur Bromley]], May-September 1916.<ref>[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf  Royal Navy Warships]</ref>
*Captain [[Arthur Bromley, Eighth Baronet|Arthur Bromley]], May 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe]], September 1916-January 1918.<ref>[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf  Royal Navy Warships]</ref>
* Captain [[Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe]], September 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
*Captain [[Theodore John Hallett|Theodore J. Hallett]], 1 January, 1918 - March, 1919.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 756.</ref>
*Captain [[Theodore John Hallett|Theodore J. Hallett]], 1 January, 1918<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 756.</ref>
*Captain [[Alan Geoffrey Hotham|Alan G. Hotham]], May 1920-July 1923.<ref>[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf  Royal Navy Warships]</ref>
*Captain [[Alan Geoffrey Hotham|Alan G. Hotham]], May 1920.{{MackieRNW}}
*Captain [[Alister Francis Beal]], July 1923.<ref>[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf  Royal Navy Warships]</ref>
*Captain [[Alister Francis Beal]], July 1923.{{MackieRNW}}
*Captain Noel F. Laurence, October 1923-November 1925.<ref>[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf  Royal Navy Warships]</ref>
*Captain [[Noel F. Laurence]], October 1923.{{MackieRNW}}


==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 21:09, 22 October 2012

H.M.S. Chatham (1911)
Pendant Number: 37 (1914)
38 (Jan 1918)
18 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 3 Jan, 1911[3]
Launched: 19 Nov, 1911[4]
Commissioned: Dec, 1912[5]
Sold: 13 Jul, 1926[6]


Alterations

Chatham was fitted with a director in September, 1918. This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  7. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  8. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  9. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  10. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  11. The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 756.
  12. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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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