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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{CaptRN}} [[Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe]], 11 July, 1912.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914).  p. 293.</ref>
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Captain [[Arthur Bromley, Eighth Baronet|Arthur Bromley]], May, 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
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Captain [[Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe]], September, 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
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Captain [[Theodore John Hallett|Theodore J. Hallett]], 1 January, 1918<ref>''The Navy List'' (February, 1919).  p. 756.</ref>
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Captain [[Alan Geoffrey Hotham|Alan G. Hotham]], 24 May, 1920.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'' (December, 1920).  p. 953-8.</ref>
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Captain [[Alister Francis Beal]], July, 1923.{{MackieRNW}}
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Captain [[Noel Frank Laurence|Noel F. Laurence]], October, 1923.{{MackieRNW}}
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Revision as of 18:48, 6 May 2014

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]

Service

Commissioned at Chatham on 3 December, 1912. She was ordered to join the Second Battle Squadron on 5 July 1913, but may have been attached to it previously.[7]

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.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

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 Navy List (July, 1913). p. 292.
  8. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  9. The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 293.
  10. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  11. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 756.
  13. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 953-8.
  14. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. 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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