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'''H.M.S. ''Colossus''''' was one of two [[Colossus Class Battleship (1910)|''Colossus'' class battleships]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1911.
  
  
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
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''Colossus'' was completed under the oversight of Commander [[Oliver Backhouse]], who'd been appointed to her on 9 January, 1911.{{NLApr11|p. 294}}
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''Colossus'' was commissioned at Devonport on 8 August, 1911, by Captain [[Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair|Dudley R. S. de Chair]] for service in the Second Division of the {{HomeFleet}}.<ref>"The New Battleship Colossus" (News).  ''The Times''.  Wednesday, 9 August, 1911.  Issue '''39659''', col C, p. 7.</ref>
 
''Colossus'' was commissioned at Devonport on 8 August, 1911, by Captain [[Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair|Dudley R. S. de Chair]] for service in the Second Division of the {{HomeFleet}}.<ref>"The New Battleship Colossus" (News).  ''The Times''.  Wednesday, 9 August, 1911.  Issue '''39659''', col C, p. 7.</ref>
  
From at least December 1912, she served in the {{UK-BS|1}}, remaining there until June 1916, when she was transferred to the {{UK-BS|4}} to become that formations second flagship. In June 1917, she relinquished her flag role within the squadron, but she resumed it in October 1917.  In February 1919, she was sent to Devonport when the Fourth was disestablished.<ref>See {{UK-BS|1}} and {{UK-BS|4}} pages for references.</ref>
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At the end of 1912, she had one of the twelve [[British_Wireless_Systems#Short_Distance_Set|Short Distance Radio Sets]] then installed in sea-going ships of five-mile range, situated behind armour near the fore bridge.{{ARTS1912|W/T Appendix, p. 8}}  From at least December 1912, she served in the {{UK-BS|1}} alongside her sister ship, {{UK-Hercules|f=p}}.  
  
==Jutland==
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By the end of 1913, she and the rest of the {{UK-BS|1}} were all equipped with [[British_Wireless_Systems#Short_Distance_Set|Battleship Auxiliary W/T sets]].{{ARTS1913|W/T Appendix, p. 13}}
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On 28 July, 1914, two men died during coaling operations at Portland.  Engineer Lieutenant [[Roland Henry Moore Bury|R. H. M. Bury]] was caught by a whip and dropped twenty feet, landing on his head, and Electrical Artificer Tripps was also killed.{{NMI|Wednesday, Jul 29, 1914; pg. 13; Issue 40588}}
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===Jutland===
 
:{{Main|H.M.S. Colossus at the Battle of Jutland}}
 
:{{Main|H.M.S. Colossus at the Battle of Jutland}}
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She served under the command of Captain [[Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound|A. Dudley P. R. Pound]] as part of the {{UK-BS|1}}.
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===Late War===
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''Colossus'' and {{UK-Hercules}} remained with the {{UK-BS|1}} until June 1916, when they were transferred to the {{UK-BS|4}}, with ''Colossus'' becoming that formation's second flagship.  In June 1917, she relinquished her flag role within the squadron, but she resumed it in October 1917. 
  
==Fate==
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===Fate===
''Colossus'' was Reduced to Reserve at Devonport on 4 March, 1919.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'' (December, 1920).  p. 749.</ref>
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In February 1919, ''Colossus'' was sent to Devonport when the Fourth was disestablished, where she was Reduced to Reserve on 4 March, 1919.{{NLDec20|p. 749}}
  
''Colossus'' was placed on the disposal list in July, 1921 but was reprieved in September for service as a Boys' Training Ship.  She was paid off in May, 1922 but recommissioned again in January, 1924 as an accommodation ship for the Training Ship ''Impregnable''.  She was paid off again in January, 1928 and sold to Alloa SB Company in July.  She left Devonport under tow on 15 August and arrived at Rosyth for breaking up on 5 September.
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''Colossus'' was placed on the disposal list in July, 1921 but was reprieved in September for service as a Boys' Training Ship.  She was paid off in May, 1922 but recommissioned again on 31 January, 1924 with a special complement as an accommodation ship for the Training Ship ''Impregnable''.{{NLApr25|p. 226}} She was paid off again in January, 1928 and sold to Alloa SB Company in July.  She left Devonport under tow on 15 August and arrived at Rosyth for breaking up on 5 September.
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
*{{CaptRN}} [[Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair|Dudley R. S. de Chair]], 27 July, 1911.<ref>De Chair Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42}}.  f. 259.</ref>
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*Captain [[William Edmund Goodenough|William E. Goodenough]], 10 August, 1912.<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42}}.  f. 433.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair|nick=Dudley R. S. de Chair|appt=27 July, 1911<ref>De Chair Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 259.</ref>{{NLAug12|p. 294}}|end=10 August, 1912<ref>De Chair Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 259.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
*Captain [[George Walter Smith|George W. Smith]], 5 July, 1913.<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42}}.  f. 312.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Edmund Goodenough|nick=William E. Goodenough|appt=10 August, 1912<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 433.</ref>|end=5 July, 1913<ref>Goodenough Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 433.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, Thirteenth Baron Stafford|The Honourable Edward S. Fitzherbert]], 29 June, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1914)p. 293.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Walter Smith|nick=George W. Smith|appt=5 July, 1913<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 312.</ref>|end=29 June, 1914<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 312.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound|A. Dudley P. R. Pound]], 24 October, 1915.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1916)p. 393''e''.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, Thirteenth Baron Stafford|nick=The Hon. Edward S. Fitzherbert|appt=29 June, 1914<ref>Stafford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 524.</ref>{{NLOct15|p. 393}}|end=23 October, 1915<ref>Stafford Service Record{{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 524.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Wilfred Tomkinson]], July 1917.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound|nick=A. Dudley P. R. Pound|appt=24 October, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 393''e''}}<ref>Pound Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 294.</ref>|end=July, 1917<ref>Pound Service Record{{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 294.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall|Charles P. Beaty-Pownall]], 15 November, 1917.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918)p. 761.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilfred Tomkinson|nick=Wilfred Tomkinson|appt=6 July, 1917<ref>Tomkinson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 375.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 392''n''}}|end=November, 1917<ref>Tomkinson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 375.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Robert Arthur Hornell]], February 1919.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall|nick=Charles P. Beaty-Pownall|appt=15 November, 1917{{NLFeb19|p. 761}}|end=3 February, 1919<ref>Beaty-Pownall Service Record{{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 235.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}
*Captain [[Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill|The Honourable Arthur L. O. Forbes-Sempill]], 15 May, 1919.<ref>''The Navy List'' (August, 1919)p. 761.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Arthur Hornell|nick=Robert A. Hornell|appt=1 February, 1919<ref>Hornell Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/435.|D7576628}} f. 437.</ref>|end=18 March, 1919<ref>Hornell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/435.|D7576628}} f. 437.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Francis Alexander Clutterbuck|Francis A. Clutterbuck]], 14 July, 1920.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'' (December, 1920).  p. 748.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill|nick=The Hon. Arthur L. O. Forbes-Sempill|appt=15 May, 1919{{NLAug19|p. 761}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Francis Alexander Clutterbuck|nick=Francis A. Clutterbuck|appt=14 July, 1920{{NLDec20|p. 748}}<ref>Clutterbuck Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 445.</ref>|end=15 July, 1921<ref>Fact check:  read from free image of Clutterbuck Service Record{{TNA|ADM 196/90.}} f. 181.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Bernard St. George Collard|nick=Bernard St. G. Collard|appt=6 September, 1921<ref>Collard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7576612}} f. 277.</ref>|note=and in command of Boys' Training Establishment, Portland|end=31 March, 1922<ref>Collard Service Record{{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7576612}} f. 277.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Kenneth Noel Humphreys|nick=Kenneth N. Humphreys|appt=21 March, 1922<ref>Humphreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/165.|D7603671}} f. ?.</ref>|end=21 May, 1922<ref>Humphreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/165.|D7603671}} f. ?.</ref>|note=temporary, dates are hard to read}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Hugh Hext Rogers|nick=Hugh H. Rogers|appt=20 December, 1923|end=15 July, 1924}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harold Aveling Knight|nick=Harold A. Knight|appt=15 July, 1924|end=15 July, 1926}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Wilson (b)|nick=George Wilson|appt=15 July, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 225}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Oliver Clive Warner|nick=Oliver C. Warner|appt=21 December, 1927<ref>Warner Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/158.|}} f. 169.</ref>|end=30 June, 1928<ref>Warner Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/158.|}} f. 169.</ref>}}
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</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
{{WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Colossus_(1910)}}
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Colossus_(1910)}}
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==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 11:16, 25 January 2020

H.M.S. Colossus (1910)
Pendant Number: 93 (1914)
43 (Jan 1918)
24 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock[2]
Laid down: 8 Jul, 1909[3]
Launched: 9 Apr, 1910[4]
Commissioned: 8 Aug, 1911
Sold: Jul, 1928[5]
Fate: Scrapped

H.M.S. Colossus was one of two Colossus class battleships completed for the Royal Navy in 1911.


Service

Colossus was completed under the oversight of Commander Oliver Backhouse, who'd been appointed to her on 9 January, 1911.[6]

Colossus was commissioned at Devonport on 8 August, 1911, by Captain Dudley R. S. de Chair for service in the Second Division of the Home Fleet.[7]

At the end of 1912, she had one of the twelve Short Distance Radio Sets then installed in sea-going ships of five-mile range, situated behind armour near the fore bridge.[8] From at least December 1912, she served in the First Battle Squadron alongside her sister ship, H.M.S. Hercules.

By the end of 1913, she and the rest of the First Battle Squadron were all equipped with Battleship Auxiliary W/T sets.[9]

On 28 July, 1914, two men died during coaling operations at Portland. Engineer Lieutenant R. H. M. Bury was caught by a whip and dropped twenty feet, landing on his head, and Electrical Artificer Tripps was also killed.[10]

Jutland

Main article: H.M.S. Colossus at the Battle of Jutland

She served under the command of Captain A. Dudley P. R. Pound as part of the First Battle Squadron.

Late War

Colossus and Hercules remained with the First Battle Squadron until June 1916, when they were transferred to the Fourth Battle Squadron, with Colossus becoming that formation's second flagship. In June 1917, she relinquished her flag role within the squadron, but she resumed it in October 1917.

Fate

In February 1919, Colossus was sent to Devonport when the Fourth was disestablished, where she was Reduced to Reserve on 4 March, 1919.[11]

Colossus was placed on the disposal list in July, 1921 but was reprieved in September for service as a Boys' Training Ship. She was paid off in May, 1922 but recommissioned again on 31 January, 1924 with a special complement as an accommodation ship for the Training Ship Impregnable.[12] She was paid off again in January, 1928 and sold to Alloa SB Company in July. She left Devonport under tow on 15 August and arrived at Rosyth for breaking up on 5 September.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 26.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  6. The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 294.
  7. "The New Battleship Colossus" (News). The Times. Wednesday, 9 August, 1911. Issue 39659, col C, p. 7.
  8. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. W/T Appendix, p. 8.
  9. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913. W/T Appendix, p. 13.
  10. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jul 29, 1914; pg. 13; Issue 40588.
  11. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 749.
  12. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 226.
  13. De Chair Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 259.
  14. The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 294.
  15. De Chair Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 259.
  16. Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  17. Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
  18. Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 312.
  19. Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 312.
  20. Stafford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 524.
  21. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 393.
  22. Stafford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 524.
  23. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 393e.
  24. Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
  25. Pound Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 294.
  26. Tomkinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 375.
  27. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392n.
  28. Tomkinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 375.
  29. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 761.
  30. Beaty-Pownall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 235.
  31. Hornell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/435. f. 437.
  32. Hornell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/435. f. 437.
  33. The Navy List. (August, 1919). p. 761.
  34. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 748.
  35. Clutterbuck Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 445.
  36. Fact check: read from free image of Clutterbuck Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 181.
  37. Collard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 277.
  38. Collard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 277.
  39. Humphreys Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/165. f. ?.
  40. Humphreys Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/165. f. ?.
  41. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 225.
  42. Warner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/158. f. 169.
  43. Warner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/158. f. 169.

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