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*{{CaptRN}} [[Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds|Percy M. R. Royds]], 24 April, 1916.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 751.</ref>
 
*{{CaptRN}} [[Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds|Percy M. R. Royds]], 24 April, 1916.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 751.</ref>
*Captain [[Graham Richard Leicester Edwards]], April 1919.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Graham Richard Leicester Edwards]], 16 April, 1919.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'', (December 1920).  p. 740.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Edward Astley Astley-Rushton]], March 1921.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Edward Astley Astley-Rushton]], March 1921.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Guy Charles Cecil Royle]], December 1927.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Guy Charles Cecil Royle]], December 1927.{{MackieRNW}}

Revision as of 14:07, 19 December 2012

H.M.S. Canterbury (1915)
Pendant Number: 0A (1914)
27 (Jan 1918)
59 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown[2]
Laid down: 14 Oct, 1914[3]
Launched: 21 Dec, 1915[4]
Commissioned: May, 1916[5]
Sold: Jul, 1934[6]
Fate: Broken up

H.M.S. Canterbury was one of four Cambrian class light cruisers completed in 1915 and 1916.

Career

She fought at the Action of 23 July, 1916, a running night action where she pursued a superiour force of German destroyers.

Canterbury 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]

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. 59.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
  7. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  8. The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 751.
  9. The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 740.
  10. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  11. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. 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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