First Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)

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Rear-Admirals and Commodores Commanding

Dates of appointment given:

History

July, 1914

The squadron was:[4]

Outbreak of War

Two additional light cruisers have reinforced the squadron.[5][6]

November, 1915

Attached to the Battle Cruiser Fleet.[7]

Battle of Jutland

Main article: First L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland

The squadron was one of three screening the battlecruisers:[8]

17 November, 1917

At the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight[9]

Screened by:

July, 1918

The Squadron is still assigned to screen the Battle Cruiser Force.[10]

November, 1918

No change since July.[11]

Drill and Practice

In 1917, the squadron fired 56 practice torpedoes of which 45 or 80% were judged to be likely to endanger the enemy.[12]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (December, 1914). p. 5.
  2. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (March, 1915). p. 6.
  3. Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. p. 24.
  4. Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
  5. Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 440.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 15.
  7. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1915). p. 11.
  8. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 33, 46.
  9. Naval Operations. Vol. V. pp. 168-169.
  10. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (July, 1911). p. 11.
  11. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1911). p. 11.
  12. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 121.

Bibliography


Light Cruiser Squadrons of the Royal Navy
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