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* {{CaptRN}} [[Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant]], June 1911.{{MackieRNW}}
 
* {{CaptRN}} [[Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant]], June 1911.{{MackieRNW}}
* Captain [[John Douglas Edwards]], December 1913,{{MackieRNW}} in command at the outbreak of war,{{UKNavalOpsI|p. 440}} and at [[Battle of Jutland]].<ref>Signed report from '"Falmouth'' in the Beatty papers on file at the National Maritime Museum, Pack 6, p. 11.</ref>
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* Captain [[John Douglas Edwards]], 1 December 1913,<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 313.</ref> in command at the outbreak of war,{{UKNavalOpsI|p. 440}} and at [[Battle of Jutland]].<ref>Signed report from '"Falmouth'' in the Beatty papers on file at the National Maritime Museum, Pack 6, p. 11.</ref>
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 10:24, 12 July 2013

H.M.S. Falmouth (1910)
Pendant Number: 90 (1914)[1]
Builder: Beardmore[2]
Laid down: 21 Feb, 1910[3]
Launched: 20 Sep, 1910[4]
Commissioned: Sep, 1911[5]
Sold: 19 Aug, 1916
Fate: by U.63


Alterations

In October 1914, the ship was to be given 4 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[6]

Falmouth was lost before she could be fitted with a director.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 52.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 52.
  6. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  7. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  8. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  9. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 313.
  10. Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 440.
  11. Signed report from '"Falmouth in the Beatty papers on file at the National Maritime Museum, Pack 6, p. 11.

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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