H.M.S. Antrim (1903)

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Career Details
Pendant Numbers: 9 (1914)
7 (Jan 1918)
N.58 (Apr 1918)[1]
Built By: John Brown[2]
Laid Down: 27 Aug, 1902[3]
Launched: 8 October, 1903
Completed: 23 June, 1905[4]
Sold: 19 December, 1922[5]
Fate: Sold to Hughes Bolckow, Derwenthaugh[6]

Radio

Antrim received one of the first Service Gear Mark II sets and tested it with that at Vernon in September 1908. The encouraging result was reliable communication over 1000 miles by night and 500 by day.[7]

Alterations

In 1913 it was approved that Antrim receive a Mark III Dumaresq, Pattern 760. Having been supplied with the Mark III variant, she was to surrender a Mark I instrument.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919. p. 43.
  2. Conways, p. 71.
  3. Conways, p. 71.
  4. Conways, p. 71.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge, p. 43.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge, p. 43.
  7. ARTS 1908 Wireless Appendix, p. 14.
  8. Admiralty Weekly Orders. "283.—Instruments, Rate of Change, Dumaresq, Mark III, Pattern 760—Supply of, to certain Ships." N.S. 2066/13.—6.6.1913. The National Archives. ADM 182/4.
  9. Inglefield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 698.
  10. Pakenham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 13.
  11. The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 278.
  12. The Navy List (October, 1915). p. 392c.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.



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