H.M.S. Repulse (1916)

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H.M.S. Repulse
Career Details
Pendant Number: 26 (April, 1918)<ref>Dittmar & Colledge.</ref>
Built By: John Brown, Clydebank
(Ship no. 443)<ref>Johnston. Clydebank Battlecruisers, Footers.</ref>
Laid Down: 25 January, 1915
Launched: 8 January, 1916
Commissioned: 18 August, 1916
Sunk: 10 December, 1941
Fate: Sunk off Malaya

Alterations

Repulse was completed with her main battery director in place, but had her secondary battery director system installed in September, 1916 — one month after she entered service.<ref>The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 9-11, 16.</ref>

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

  • Captain Cyril T. M. Fuller, 2 August, 1916.<ref>Navy List (December, 1916). p. 397h.</ref>
  • Captain John S. Dumaresq, 24 September, 1917.<ref>Navy List (November, 1917). p. 397k.</ref>
  • Captain William H. D. Boyle, 6 November, 1917.<ref>Navy List (December, 1918). p. 892.</ref>
  • Captain Frederic Charles Dreyer, 18 April, 1922.<ref>"Naval and Military" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 18 April, 1922. Issue 43008, col D, pg. 21.</ref>

See Also

Footnotes

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Bibliography

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