H.M.S. Ceres (1917)

H.M.S. Ceres (1917)
Pendant Number:	66 (1914) 36 (Jan 1918) 58 (Apr 1918)
Builder:	John Brown
Ordered:	Mar/Apr 1916
Laid down:	11 Jul, 1916
Launched:	24 Mar, 1917
Commissioned:	Jun, 1917
Sold:	5 Apr, 1946
Fate:	Broken up Hughes Bolckow

Service

She recommissioned on 1 November, 1920.

Ceres re-commissioned on 18 September, 1922.

Re-commissioned on 11 June, 1925.

Ceres re-commissioned at Chatham on 8 December, 1927 for duty with the Third Cruiser Squadron on the Mediterranean Station.

She re-commissioned in Reserve at Devonport on 6 May, 1931.

Commissioned at Chatham on 12 May, 1932 for duty with the Third Cruiser Squadron on the Mediterranean Station under the command of Captain George Arthur Scott.

Alterations

Ceres was fitted with a director in June, 1917. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.

Ceres was one of just six light cruisers listed as having a Turret Control Table in her TS in June 1918. If and when this was provided is uncertain.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Captain George N. Tomlin, 30 May, 1917 – 13 June, 1917  (temporarily)
• Captain Herbert Meade, 13 June, 1917 – April, 1918
• Captain Henry G. E. Lane, April, 1918 – July, 1919
• Captain Harold O. Reinold, July, 1919 – 18 July, 1921
• Captain John K. im Thurn, 21 June, 1921 – 15 March, 1923
• Captain Arthur L. Snagge, 15 March, 1923 – 10 February, 1924
• Acting Captain H. Evelyn C. Blagrove, 10 February, 1924 – 21 February, 1924
• Captain Nicholas E. Archdale, 21 February, 1924 – 26 February, 1925
• Captain Wellwood G. C. Maxwell, 26 February, 1925 – April, 1927
• Captain Arthur J. L. Murray, 10 September, 1926 – 5 May, 1927^{[Fact Check]}  (temporary, during Maxwell's absence)
• Captain Arthur J. Landon, 19 March, 1927 – January, 1929
• Captain Norman A. Wodehouse, 17 December, 1928 – 5 November, 1929
• Captain Frederick A. Sommerville, 10 February, 1931 – 1 April, 1931  (for trials)
• Commander James R. C. Cavendish, 6 April, 1931 – 10 July, 1931  (ship winding up in Devonport Reserve)
• Captain George A. Scott, 12 May, 1932 – 17 November, 1933
• Captain William B. Hynes, 27 November, 1933 – 8 October, 1934
• Commander Arthur H. S. Casswell, 8 October, 1935 – 5 May, 1936  (temporary)
• Commander Philip H. Calderon, 5 May, 1936 – 20 December, 1936
• Commander Arthur H. S. Casswell, 3 January, 1937 – 10 April, 1937
• Commander John D. A. Musters, 21 September, 1938 – 30 September, 1938
• Commander John D. A. Musters, 17 October, 1938 – 4 April, 1939
• Captain Edmund G. Abbott, July, 1939 – February, 1941
• Captain Douglas M. L. Neame, February, 1941 – July, 1941
• Captain Henry H. McWilliam, July, 1941 – April, 1942
• Captain Cecil C. A. Allen, April, 1942 – March, 1943  (vice "Stephenson")
• Captain Roy C. Harry, March, 1943 – 1943

See Also

• Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net
• Wikipedia

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, 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.
• 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.