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Revision as of 10:36, 27 October 2014

H.M.S. Cleopatra (1915)
Pendant Number: 1A (1914)
40 (Jan 1918)
88 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Laid down: 26 Feb, 1914[3]
Launched: 14 Jan, 1915[4]
Commissioned: Jun, 1915[5]
Sold: 1931[6]
Fate: to Hughes Bolckow[7]

Service

She recommissioned at Portsmouth on 25 October, 1920.[8]

Alterations

Cleopatra was fitted with a director in July, 1917. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[9]

At some point likely after the end of the war, she received a Dreyer Turret Control Table in her T.S..[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 746.
  9. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  10. absent from Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3, present in 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.
  11. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392k.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 758.
  13. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p.758.
  14. The Navy List. (May, 1919). p. 758.
  15. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 746.
  16. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  18. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. Bramble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 234.
  20. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  21. 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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