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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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* Captain [[Charles Edward Le Mesurier]], during the [[Battle of Jutland]].
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* {{CaptRN}} [[Charles Edward Le Mesurier]], May 1915,{{MackieRNW}} and during the [[Battle of Jutland]].
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*Captain [[Rudolf Walter Bentinck]], August 1917.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble|Percy L. H. Noble]], 15 October, 1918.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 748.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble|Percy L. H. Noble]], 15 October, 1918.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 748.</ref>
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*Captain [[Walter Burdge Compton]], March 1919.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[William Douglas Paton]], May 1922.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Thomas Erskine Wardle]], June 1923.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Wilbraham T. R. Ford]], October 1924.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[L. Stanley Holbrook]], December 1927.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Arthur Francis Pridham]], September 1928.{{MackieRNW}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 13:10, 23 October 2012

H.M.S. Calliope (1914)
Pendant Number: 76 (1914)
23 (Jan 1918)
78 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 1 Jan, 1914[3]
Launched: 17 Dec, 1914[4]
Commissioned: Jun, 1915[5]
Sold: 28 Aug, 1931[6]


Alterations

Calliope was fitted with a director in March, 1918. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[7]

At some point likely after the end of the war, she received a Dreyer Turret Control Table in her T.S..[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 48.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 57.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 48.
  7. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  10. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  11. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 748.
  12. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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, 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.
  • 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.


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