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Revision as of 09:18, 21 April 2014
| H.M.S. Falmouth (1910) | |
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| Pendant Number: | 90 (1914)[1] |
| Builder: | Beardmore[2] |
| Laid down: | 21 Feb, 1910[3] |
| Launched: | 20 Sep, 1910[4] |
| Commissioned: | Sep, 1911[5] |
| Torpedoed: | 19 Aug, 1916 |
| Fate: | by U.63 |
Contents
Service
In early 1913, she was attached to the Second Battle Squadron, but was to join the Second Light Cruiser Squadron on 30 June.[6]
On 5 August, 1914, she lost two seamen to drowning - the first Royal Navy operational casualties in the Great War.[7]
Battle of Jutland
At the Battle of Jutland, she was one of four light cruisers of the Third Light Cruiser Squadron screening the battlecruisers, operating under Captain John Douglas Edwards.[8]
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.[9]
Falmouth was lost before she could be fitted with a director.[10]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Edmund P. F. G. Grant, 6 June, 1911.[11]
- Captain John D. Edwards, 1 December 1913,[12] still in command at the Battle of Jutland.[13]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 52.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 52.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 312.
- ↑ Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 1.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 33, 46.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 312.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 316.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
Bibliography
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