H.M.S. Liverpool (1909)

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H.M.S. Liverpool (1909)
Pendant Number: 44 (1914)
80 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Vickers[2]
Laid down: 17 Feb, 1909[3]
Launched: 30 Oct, 1909[4]
Commissioned: Oct, 1910[5]
Sold: 8 Nov, 1921[6]

H.M.S. Liverpool was one of five Bristol class cruisers completed for the Royal Navy in 1910.

Service

She recommissioned on 14 March 1913 to join Second Fleet at Portsmouth. In July, she was ordered to join the Second Light Cruiser Squadron.[7]

At the outbreak of war, she was under the command of Captain Edward Reeves.[8]

In November, 1915, the ship was temporarily attached to the Grand Fleet.[9]

Paid off in charge of Naval Shipkeeping Party at Devonport on 31 March, 1920.[10]

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.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 51.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 51.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 51.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  7. The Navy List (July, 1913), pp. 340-1.
  8. Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 440.
  9. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1915) p. 10.
  10. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 802.
  11. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  12. Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 325.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 340.
  15. The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 340.
  16. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395w.
  17. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 833.

Bibliography

  • 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).


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