H.M.S. Champion (1915)

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H.M.S. Champion
Career Details
Pendant Numbers: C8 (1914)
37 (Jan 1918)
25 (Apr 1918)[1]
Built By: Hawthorn Leslie
Laid Down:
Launched: 29 May, 1915
Commissioned:
Sold:
Fate:

Alterations

Champion was fitted with a director in January, 1918. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[2]

At some point likely after the end of the war, she received a Dreyer Turret Control Table in her T.S..[3]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919. p. 48.
  2. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, pp. 11-12.
  3. ↑ Pamphlet on the Turret Dreyer Table as fitted in the turrets of H.M. battleships and in the transmitting stations of certain cruisers, 1930, p. 4.

Bibliography

Template:Calliope Class (1914)

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