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− | + | <div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Southampton'' (1912)|fate2= | |
− | | | + | |comm=Nov, 1912{{Conways1906|p. 53}} |
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− | + | |name=Southampton | |
− | + | |launch=16 May, 1912{{DittColl|p. 46}} | |
− | | | + | |builder=[[John Brown & Company]]{{DittColl|p. 46}} |
− | | | + | |laid=6 Apr, 1911{{Conways1906|p. 53}} |
− | |89 (1914)<br>9A (Jan 1918)<br>35 (Apr 1918) | + | |fate=Sold |
− | |- | + | |pend=89 (1914)<br>9A (Jan 1918)<br>35 (Apr 1918){{DittColl|p. 46}} |
− | | | + | |fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career> |
− | |[[ | + | ==Service== |
− | + | Completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 25 February, 1913.{{NLApr14|p. 375}} Initially attached to the {{UK-BS|1}} Captain [[Arthur Allan Morison Duff|Arthur A. M. Duff]] took command the next month. She was ordered to transfer to the {{UK-LCS|1}} on 1 July.{{NLJul13|p. 376}} [[William Edmund Goodenough]] would become captain almost at the same time as this transfer.{{NLApr14|p. 375}} | |
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− | | | + | ===Battle of Jutland=== |
− | | | + | ''Southampton'' was flagship of the {{UK-LCS|2}}, screening the battlecruisers under the command of Commodore [[William Edmund Goodenough]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 46}} |
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− | + | At about 10pm, ''Southampton'' and her squadron suddenly found themselves in a point-blank gun engagement with German light cruisers on their beam. Casualties amongst her gun crews in their exposed positions were high. | |
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− | + | The cruiser was equipped with {{Torp|21-in Mark II**|UK}}es, and fired one at high speed setting from the starboard tube at a gyro angle of 15° left at 10.20 or 10.30pm (not clear in hand-corrected source) at a line of five enemy cruisers at 1,500 to 2,000 yards range. Multiple observers felt it may have hit the foremost ship, whose searchlights went out.<ref>Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY ?/?), item 1.</ref> | |
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− | |- | + | ===Post-War=== |
− | + | ''Southampton'' recommissioned at Portsmouth on 20 May, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 865}} | |
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− | + | Paid off into Reserve on 30 August, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 271}} | |
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==Alterations== | ==Alterations== | ||
− | ''Southampton'' was fitted with a director in March, 1918. This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity. | + | In October 1914, the ship was to be given 5 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.{{AWO1914|512 of 16 Oct, 1914}} |
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+ | A detailed report from the [[Battle of Jutland]] makes it clear that the ship had some form of an elevation-only director at the time of the battle, though its use was as a resort for instances where the target could not be seen by the guns.<ref>Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY 6/6), item 1, sections 2 and 11.</ref> | ||
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+ | One source, however, indicates that ''Southampton'' was only fitted with a director in March, 1918, almost certainly referring to a proper Vickers light director outfit.{{INF}} This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.{{FCHMShips|pp. 11-12}} | ||
− | {{ | + | ==Captains== |
− | + | Dates of appointment are provided when known. | |
− | + | <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Southampton''"> | |
− | + | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, First Baron Chatfield|nick=A. Ernle M. Chatfield|appt=24 September, 1912<ref>Chatfield Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43}}. f. 346.</ref>|precBy=New Command|end=March, 1913<ref>Chatfield Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 346.</ref>}} | |
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Allan Morison Duff|nick=Arthur A. M. Duff|appt=March, 1913{{NLJul13|p. 376}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Edmund Goodenough|nick=William E. Goodenough|appt=5 July, 1913{{NLDec16|p. 398''c''}}<ref>Goodenough Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 433.</ref>|end=c. 6 June, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 433.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}} and in command of {{UK-LCS|1}}, then of {{UK-LCS|2}} from February, 1915}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Astley Astley-Rushton|nick=Edward A. Rushton|appt=17 June, 1916<ref>Astley-Rushton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 55.</ref>|end=8 August, 1916<ref>Astley-Rushton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 55.</ref>}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Edmund Goodenough|nick=William E. Goodenough|appt=21 June, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 433.</ref>|end=c. 5 November, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 433.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}} and in command of {{UK-LCS|2}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Edmund Goodenough|nick=William E. Goodenough|appt=18 November, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 433.</ref>|end=5 December, 1916<ref>Goodenough Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 433.</ref>|note=as {{Com2RN}} and in command of {{UK-LCS|2}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CaptRN}}|name=Halton Stirling Lecky|nick=Halton S. Lecky|appt=22 December, 1916<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/444.}} f. 513. In our PDF for [[Benjamin Wingate Barrow]].</ref>|end=16 February, 1917<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/444.}} f. 513. In our PDF for [[Benjamin Wingate Barrow]].</ref>|note=as Flag Captain to Commodore [[Cecil Foley Lambert|Lambert]]}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Basil Vernon Brooke|nick=Basil V. Brooke|appt=15 February, 1917{{NLDec18|p. 909}}|end=1 March, 1919}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Theodore John Hallett|nick=Theodore J. Hallett|appt=3 March, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 865}}|end=}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Lawrence Walter Braithwaite|nick=Lawrence W. Braithwaite|appt=c. late 1919<ref>This Braithwaite Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/504.|D7576642}} f. 507.</ref>|end=November, 1921<ref>Braithwaite Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/504.|D7576642}} f. 507.</ref>|note=and as Chief of Staff to C-in-C, East Indies}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Wilfrid Allan Egerton|nick=Wilfrid A. Egerton|appt=21 October, 1921<ref>Egerton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 106.</ref>|end=October, 1923<ref>Egerton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 106.</ref>|note=as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to R/A [[Lewis Clinton-Baker]]}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Noel Frank Laurence|nick=Noel F. Laurence|appt=3 October, 1923{{NLJul24|p. 270}}|end=1924<ref>Laurence Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/175.|D7576654}} f. 579.</ref>|note=as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to R/A Herbert W. Richmond}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay|nick=The Hon. Alexander R. M. Ramsay|appt=1924<ref>Ramsay Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.}} f. 210.</ref>|end=16 August, 1924<ref>Ramsay Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.}} f. 210.</ref>}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''I''', ''De.'')|name=Melville Adams Hawes|nick=Melville A. Hawes|appt=16 August, 1924<ref>Hawes Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/255.|}} f. 298.</ref>|end=late 1924<ref>Hawes Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/255.|}} f. 298.</ref>|note=ended on paying off}} | ||
+ | </div name=fredbot:officeCapt> | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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+ | * [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Southampton.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net] | ||
+ | * [[Second L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland]] | ||
+ | {{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Southampton_(1912)}} | ||
+ | {{refend}} | ||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:48, 6 September 2023
H.M.S. Southampton (1912) | |
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Pendant Number: | 89 (1914) 9A (Jan 1918) 35 (Apr 1918)[1] |
Builder: | John Brown & Company[2] |
Laid down: | 6 Apr, 1911[3] |
Launched: | 16 May, 1912[4] |
Commissioned: | Nov, 1912[5] |
Sold: |
Service
Completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 25 February, 1913.[6] Initially attached to the First Battle Squadron Captain Arthur A. M. Duff took command the next month. She was ordered to transfer to the First Light Cruiser Squadron on 1 July.[7] William Edmund Goodenough would become captain almost at the same time as this transfer.[8]
Battle of Jutland
Southampton was flagship of the Second Light Cruiser Squadron, screening the battlecruisers under the command of Commodore William Edmund Goodenough.[9]
At about 10pm, Southampton and her squadron suddenly found themselves in a point-blank gun engagement with German light cruisers on their beam. Casualties amongst her gun crews in their exposed positions were high.
The cruiser was equipped with 21-in Mark II** torpedoes, and fired one at high speed setting from the starboard tube at a gyro angle of 15° left at 10.20 or 10.30pm (not clear in hand-corrected source) at a line of five enemy cruisers at 1,500 to 2,000 yards range. Multiple observers felt it may have hit the foremost ship, whose searchlights went out.[10]
Post-War
Southampton recommissioned at Portsmouth on 20 May, 1919.[11]
Paid off into Reserve on 30 August, 1924.[12]
Alterations
In October 1914, the ship was to be given 5 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[13]
A detailed report from the Battle of Jutland makes it clear that the ship had some form of an elevation-only director at the time of the battle, though its use was as a resort for instances where the target could not be seen by the guns.[14]
One source, however, indicates that Southampton was only fitted with a director in March, 1918, almost certainly referring to a proper Vickers light director outfit.[Inference] This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[15]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain A. Ernle M. Chatfield, 24 September, 1912[16] – March, 1913[17]
- Captain Arthur A. M. Duff, March, 1913[18]
- Captain William E. Goodenough, 5 July, 1913[19][20] – c. 6 June, 1916[21] (as Commodore, Second Class and in command of First Light Cruiser Squadron, then of Second Light Cruiser Squadron from February, 1915)
- Captain Edward A. Rushton, 17 June, 1916[22] – 8 August, 1916[23]
- Captain William E. Goodenough, 21 June, 1916[24] – c. 5 November, 1916[25] (as Commodore, Second Class and in command of Second Light Cruiser Squadron)
- Captain William E. Goodenough, 18 November, 1916[26] – 5 December, 1916[27] (as Commodore, Second Class and in command of Second Light Cruiser Squadron)
- Acting Captain Halton S. Lecky, 22 December, 1916[28] – 16 February, 1917[29] (as Flag Captain to Commodore Lambert)
- Captain Basil V. Brooke, 15 February, 1917[30] – 1 March, 1919
- Captain Theodore J. Hallett, 3 March, 1919[31]
- Captain Lawrence W. Braithwaite, c. late 1919[32] – November, 1921[33] (and as Chief of Staff to C-in-C, East Indies)
- Captain Wilfrid A. Egerton, 21 October, 1921[34] – October, 1923[35] (as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to R/A Lewis Clinton-Baker)
- Captain Noel F. Laurence, 3 October, 1923[36] – 1924[37] (as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to R/A Herbert W. Richmond)
- Captain The Hon. Alexander R. M. Ramsay, 1924[38] – 16 August, 1924[39]
- Commander (I, De.) Melville A. Hawes, 16 August, 1924[40] – late 1924[41] (ended on paying off)
See Also
- Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net
- Second L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
- Wikipedia
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 375.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 376.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 375.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
- ↑ Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY ?/?), item 1.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 865.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 271.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
- ↑ Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (BTY 6/6), item 1, sections 2 and 11.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
- ↑ Chatfield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 346.
- ↑ Chatfield Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 346.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 376.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 398c.
- ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
- ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
- ↑ Astley-Rushton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 55.
- ↑ Astley-Rushton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 55.
- ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
- ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
- ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
- ↑ Goodenough Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 433.
- ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 513. In our PDF for Benjamin Wingate Barrow.
- ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 513. In our PDF for Benjamin Wingate Barrow.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 909.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
- ↑ This Braithwaite Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/504. f. 507.
- ↑ Braithwaite Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/504. f. 507.
- ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 106.
- ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 106.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 270.
- ↑ Laurence Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/175. f. 579.
- ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
- ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
- ↑ Hawes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 298.
- ↑ Hawes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 298.
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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