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* {{CaptRN}} [[Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant]], 6 June, 1911.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 312.</ref>
 
* {{CaptRN}} [[Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant]], 6 June, 1911.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 312.</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>
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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]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 46}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 13:43, 24 September 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

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]

At the Battle of Jutland, she was part of the Third Light Cruiser Squadron, screening the battlecruisers under Captain John Douglas Edwards.[7]

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.[8]

Falmouth was lost before she could be fitted with a director.[9]

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. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 312.
  7. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 33, 46.
  8. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  9. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  10. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 312.
  11. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 313.
  12. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 440.
  13. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.

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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