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* Captain [[Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton]], November, 1917.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 756.</ref>
 
* Captain [[Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton]], November, 1917.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918).  p. 756.</ref>
 
* Captain [[Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster]], April 1919.{{MackieRNW}}
 
* Captain [[Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster]], April 1919.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[Gregory Gonville Cuffe Wood-Martin]], April 1921.{{MackieRNW}}
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* Captain [[Patrick E. Palmer]], May 1922.{{MackieRNW}}
 
* Captain [[Patrick E. Palmer]], May 1922.{{MackieRNW}}
 
* Captain [[Everard J. Hardman-Jones]], April 1923.{{MackieRNW}}
 
* Captain [[Everard J. Hardman-Jones]], April 1923.{{MackieRNW}}

Revision as of 14:57, 24 October 2012

H.M.S. Champion (1915)
Pendant Number: C8 (1914)
37 (Jan 1918)
25 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Laid down: 9 Mar, 1914[3]
Launched: 29 May, 1915[4]
Commissioned: Dec, 1915[5]
Sold: 28 Jul, 1934[6]


Alterations

Champion was fitted with a director in January, 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 TS.[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. 756.
  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.
  18. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  20. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  21. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  23. 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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