H.M.S. Vindictive (1918)
H.M.S. Vindictive (1918) | |
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Pendant Number: | 31 (Oct 1918) 48 (Sep 1919)[1] |
Builder: | Harland & Wolff[2] |
Laid down: | 29 Jun, 1918[3] |
Launched: | 17 Jan, 1918[4] |
Commissioned: | Oct, 1918[5] |
Converted: | 1925[6] |
Fate: | back to a cruiser |
Started construction as H.M.S. Cavendish, as one of the Hawkins class cruiser, but completed as an aircraft carrier, H.M.S. Vindictive.
We treat her as a distinct class.
Service
Vindictive was reduced to Reserve on 30 November, 1920.[7]
She paid off to a C. & M. Party on 10 February, 1925.[8]
Following conversion back into a cruiser with a reduced aircraft capacity, she sailed from Chatham the Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron on the China Station early in 1926.
Commissioned at Chatham on 20 August, 1928 with Fleet Air Arm Flight No. 444 embarked.[9]
Commissioned at Chatham for a trooping trip on 18 February, 1931.[10]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander James G. P. Ingham, 13 September, 1918[11]
- Captain Henry E. Grace, 21 September, 1918[12] – 25 August, 1920
- Commander Alan J. Mackenzie-Grieve, 13 October, 1920[13] – 1921
- Captain Frank Powell, c. 1 June, 1921[14] – 15 June, 1921[15]
- Captain Reginald J. N. Watson, 12 July, 1921[16] – 18 August, 1921[17] (lent from Monarch)
- Captain Cathcart R. Wason, 10 March, 1922 – 8 August, 1922
- Captain Ronald Howard, 8 August, 1922[18] – February, 1923[19]
- Captain George Francis Hyde, 22 October, 1924[20] – October, 1925[21]
- Captain Ronald Howard, 2 October, 1925[22] – April, 1927
- Captain Douglas B. Le Mottée, April, 1927[23] – late 1928[24]
- Captain Francis T. B. Tower, 16 May, 1927[25] – 16 May, 1929 (and as Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer)
- Captain Lancelot E. Holland, 16 May, 1929[26] – 31 December, 1929[27] (and as Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer to R/A Best)
- Commander Percy R. P. Percival, 17 January, 1930[28] – 19 September, 1930[29]
- Captain Charles G. Stuart, 22 February, 1930[30] – 24 July, 1930[31]
- Captain Reginald St. P. Parry, 18 February, 1931[32] – 7 April, 1931[33][Inference]
- Captain Arthur M. Lecky, 29 July, 1931[34] – 1 February, 1932[35]
- Captain Edward McC. W. Lawrie, 1 February, 1932[36] – June, 1932[37]
- Commander Colin A. G. Hutchison, 30 September, 1932[38]
- Commander Henry J. Egerton, 25 January, 1933 – February, 1933 (temporary)
- Commander Henry J. Egerton, July, 1933 – 17 July, 1933 (temporary)
- Captain Hamilton C. Allen, 1 July, 1935[39] – 24 July, 1935[40] (and as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Nore, vice "Morris")
- Commander Charles E. S. Farrant, early 1936[41] – 15 May, 1936[42]
- Captain Ernest J. Spooner, 17 August, 1937 – 17 December, 1938
- Captain Henry C. Bovell, 17 December, 1938[43] – c. October, 1939[44]
Robert Bertram Ramsay was appointed in command on 24 February, 1927,[45] but his service record indicates that this was canceled.
Armament
- Four 7.5-in/45cal Mark VI guns
- Four 3-in
- Four 12-pdr H.A. guns
- Six 21-in tubes, two submerged and four fixed A.W. tubes, three to a side
- Six folding-wing aircraft
Fire Control
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 52.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 63.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 63.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 63.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 69.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 69.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 890.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 283.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 282a.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 282a.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 890.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 935.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 890.
- ↑ Powell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/242. f. 274.
- ↑ Powell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/242. f. 274.
- ↑ Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/342. f. 385.
- ↑ Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/342. f. 385.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 836.
- ↑ Month is not wholly clear. Is 1, 2 or 3.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 283.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 283.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Two-digits month is illegible in his service record.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 282a.
- ↑ Holland Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/51/23. f. 23.
- ↑ Holland Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/51/23. f. 23.
- ↑ Percival Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 303.
- ↑ Percival Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 303.
- ↑ Stuart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/3. f. 3.
- ↑ Stuart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/3. f. 3.
- ↑ Parry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 34.
- ↑ Parry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 34.
- ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
- ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
- ↑ Lawrie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/38. f. 441.
- ↑ Lawrie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/38. f. 441.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 286.
- ↑ Allen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 408.
- ↑ Allen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 408.
- ↑ Farrant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/41. f. 41.
- ↑ Farrant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/41. f. 41.
- ↑ Bovell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/28. f. 28.
- ↑ Bovell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/28. f. 28.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 283.
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