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H.M.S. Berwick (1926)
Builder:	Fairfield^[1]
Laid down:	15 Sep, 1924^[2]
Launched:	30 Mar, 1926^[3]
Completed:	15 Feb, 1928^[4]
Broken up:	1948^[5]

H.M.S. Berwick was one of seven Kent Class cruisers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Devonport on 15 April, 1930 for duty with the Fifth Cruiser Squadron on the China Station.^[6]

Captains

Captain Ralph S. Wykes-Sneyd, April, 1927^[7] – 7 October, 1928^[8]
Captain Eric G. Robinson, 10 August, 1928^[9] – 22 September, 1930^[10]
Captain Charles G. Brodie, 15 April, 1930^[11] – September, 1931^[12]
Captain Cecil N. Reyne, September, 1931^[13] – July, 1932^[14]
Captain Cyril G. Sedgwick, ? – November, 1934^[15]
Captain Eric R. Bent, November 1934^[16] – 15 July, 1937^[17]
Captain Irving M. Palmer, October, 1938^[18] – June, 1940^[19]
Captain Guy L. Warren, 22 June, 1940^[20] – May, 1941^[21]
Captain George H. Faulkner, May, 1941^[22] – February, 1943^[23]
Captain Henry J. Egerton, 16 April, 1943 – 8 January, 1944
Captain Norman V. Grace, January, 1944^[24] – August, 1944^[25]
Captain Stephen H. T. Arliss, August, 1944^[26] – 1946^[27]

Footnotes

↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 218.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Successor assumed command that day. Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.
↑ Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.
↑ Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 217.
↑ He was superseded that month. Reyne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 98.
↑ Reyne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 98.
↑ Reyne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 98.
↑ A would-be successor was to be appointed that day. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. Unnumbered folio.
↑ Bent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 260. Month of year taken from predecessor.
↑ Bent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 260.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Warren Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/232. f. 245.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography

Kent Class Heavy Cruiser

Royal Navy

Berwick

Cornwall

Cumberland

Kent

Suffolk

Royal Australian Navy

Australia

Canberra

<–

H.M.S. Hood

Major Cruisers (UK)

London Class

–>

[1] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.

[2] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.

[3] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.

[4] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.

[5] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.

[6] The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 218.

[7] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[8] Successor assumed command that day. Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.

[9] Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.

[10] Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.

[11] The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 217.

[12] He was superseded that month. Reyne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 98.

[13] Reyne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 98.

[14] Reyne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 98.

[15] A would-be successor was to be appointed that day. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. Unnumbered folio.

[16] Bent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 260. Month of year taken from predecessor.

[17] Bent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 260.

[18] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[19] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[20] Warren Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/232. f. 245.

[21] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[22] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[23] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[24] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[25] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[26] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[27] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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