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==See Also== | ==See Also== |
Revision as of 16:22, 18 July 2012
H.M.S. Benbow | |
Career | Details |
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Pendant Number: | 51 (Apr 1918)[1] |
Ordered: | 1911-1912 Programme |
Built By: | Beardmore, Parkhead |
Laid Down: | 30 May, 1912 |
Launched: | 12 November, 1912 |
Commissioned: | 7 October, 1914 |
Sold: | March, 1931 |
Fate: | Scrapped |
Launch
Benbow was launched on 13 November, 1913 by Lady Randolph Churchill, widow of the former government minister and mother of the First Lord of the Admiralty. In honour of the occasion she was presented with a Brazilian diamond necklet by Messrs. William Beardmore and Company.
Alterations
Benbow received a main battery director after completion, sometime prior to May, 1915.[2] Her class received their directors after King George V received hers, and likely to a similar design, placing the light aloft tower atop the spotting top.[3]
She received a temporary director system for her secondary battery in November-December, 1916 which was replaced by a proper one sometime in 1917.[4]
Fate
Benbow's sale was announced on 6 March, 1931.
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain James A. Fergusson, 14 May, 1914.[5]
- Captain Henry W. Parker, 24 August, 1915.[6]
- Captain Lewis Clinton-Baker, June, 1916.[7]
- Captain Arthur K. Waistell, 28 September, 1917.[8]
- Captain Charles Douglas Carpendale, C.B. 21 February 1921[Fact Check][Citation needed]
- Captain Henry Ralph Crooke, C.B., 21 February, 1921[Fact Check][Citation needed][9]
- Captain John Moore Casement, ???[Fact Check]
- Captain James Fownes Somerville, 20 August, 1922 – 31 October, 1924[Citation needed]
- Captain Ambrose Maynard Peck, 1926-1927[Citation needed]
- Captain Francis Murray Austin, 1927/8-1929?[Fact Check][Citation needed]
Jutland
Acted as flagship to Fourth Battle Squadron under Captain Parker.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. p. 33.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 9-10.
- ↑ Letter in D'Eyncourt Papers at the National Maritime Museum's Caird Library, DEY/27
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships, p. 16.
- ↑ Navy List (December, 1914). p. 281.
- ↑ Navy List (October, 1915). p. 392j.
- ↑ Navy List (December, 1916). p. 392k.
- ↑ Navy List (December, 1918). p. 740.
- ↑ Note likely data issue tween Carpendale and Crooke
Bibliography
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
- Template:BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919
- Template:BibParkesBritishBattleships