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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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* {{CaptRN}} [[Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe]], July 1912.{{MackieRNW}}
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* {{CaptRN}} [[Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe]], 11 July, 1912.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914).  p. 293.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Arthur Bromley, Eighth Baronet|Arthur Bromley]], May 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Arthur Bromley, Eighth Baronet|Arthur Bromley]], May 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
 
* Captain [[Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe]], September 1916.{{MackieRNW}}
 
* Captain [[Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe]], September 1916.{{MackieRNW}}

Revision as of 15:55, 11 July 2013

H.M.S. Chatham (1911)
Pendant Number: 37 (1914)
38 (Jan 1918)
18 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 3 Jan, 1911[3]
Launched: 19 Nov, 1911[4]
Commissioned: Dec, 1912[5]
Sold: 13 Jul, 1926[6]


Alterations

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

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  7. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  8. The Navy List (April, 1914). p. 293.
  9. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  10. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  11. The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 756.
  12. The Monthly Navy List (December, 1920). p. 953-8.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. 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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