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==Service==
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''Capetown'' was re-commissioned at Devonport on 16 October, 1924 for service with the {{UK-CS|8}} on the [[America and West Indies Station]].{{NLJul27|p. 221}}
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She was commissioned on 1 July, 1927 for service with the {{UK-CS|8}} on the [[America and West Indies Station]].{{NLFeb29|p. 222}}
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Re-commissioned on 31 December, 1929.{{NLJan33|p. 220}}
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Commissioned on 15 December, 1933.{{NLJul34|p. 220}}
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Commissioned on 17 July, 1934 under the command of Captain [[Douglas Adams Budgen|Douglas A. Budgen]] for service on the [[China Station]].{{NLOct35|p. 220}}
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Re-commissioned at Devonport on 30 July, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 221}}
  
 
==Fire Control==
 
==Fire Control==
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Listed in June 1918 as one of 8 light cruisers to receive a [[Mark III* Dreyer Table]], presumably in place at time of completion.<ref>''Handbook for Capt. FC Dreyer's Fire Control Tables'', p. 3.</ref>
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Listed in June 1918 as one of eight light cruisers to receive a [[Mark III* Dreyer Table]], presumably in place at time of completion.{{DreyerH|p. 3}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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*{{CaptRN}} [[Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar]], February 1923.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[George H. Knowles]], May 1924.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Harold Douglas Briggs|nick=Harold D. Briggs|appt=6 January, 1922<ref>Briggs Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/421.|}} f. 427.</ref>|end=8 April, 1922<ref>Briggs Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/421.|}} f. 427.</ref>|note=temporary, for trials|precBy=New Command}}
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*Captain [[Oswald H. Dawson]], May 1926.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Roynon-Jones|nick=Edward Roynon-Jones|appt=8 April, 1922<ref>Roynon-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/101.|}} f. 101.</ref>{{NLJan23|p. 733}}|end=February, 1923<ref>Roynon-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/101.|}} f. 101.</ref>}}
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*Captain [[E. Rupert Drummond]], July 1927.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar|nick=Kenneth G. B. Dewar|appt=February, 1923<ref>Dewar Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}}  f. 59.</ref>|end=May, 1924<ref>Dewar Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}}  f. 59.</ref>}}
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*Captain [[W. E. Campbell Tait]], July 1929.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Herbert Knowles|nick=George H. Knowles|appt=15 May, 1924<ref>Knowles Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/47/52.|D7603759}} f. 257.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 222}}|end=June, 1926<ref>Knowles Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/52.|D7603759}} f. 257.</ref>}}
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*Captain [[Douglas A. Budgen]], July 1934.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Oswald Henry Dawson|nick=Oswald H. Dawson|appt=15 May, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 221}}<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 384.</ref>|ass=June, 1926<ref>Knowles Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/52.|D7603759}} f. 257.</ref>|end=8 August, 1927<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 384.</ref>}}
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*Captain [[Cuthbert Coppinger]], June 1936.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edmund Rupert Drummond|nick=The Hon. E. Rupert Drummond|appt=1 July, 1927{{NLFeb29|p. 222}}|ass=8 August, 1927<ref>Predecessor left that day.  Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 384.</ref>|end=July, 1929}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William Eric Campbell Tait|nick=W. E. Campbell Tait|appt=5 July, 1929<ref>Tait Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/328.|}}  f. 343.</ref>|ass=27 July, 1929<ref>Tait Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/328.|}}  f. 343.</ref>|end=December, 1929<ref>Tait Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/328.|}}  f. 343.</ref>}}
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More at Colin Mackie's website.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Bernard Hughes|nick=John B. Hughes|appt=19 December, 1929{{NLJul31|p. 221}}|end=26 September, 1932}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Noel Pelly|nick=John N. Pelly|appt=26 September, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 220}}|end=7 March, 1933<ref>Pelly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/27.|}} f. 379.</ref>|note=May be 26 April, 1932}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Domvile Auchmuty Musters|nick=John D. A. Musters|appt=7 December, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 220}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Douglas Adams Budgen|nick=Douglas A. Budgen|appt=17 July, 1934<ref>Budgen Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/92/97.|D8116218}} f. 97.</ref>|end=8 June, 1936<ref>Budgen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/267.|D7605352}} f. 637.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cuthbert Coppinger|nick=Cuthbert Coppinger|appt=8 June, 1936{{NLJul37|p. 221}}<ref>Coppinger Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/52.|}} f. 684.</ref>|end=10 October, 1938<ref>Coppinger Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52.|}} f. 684.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Cecil Bovell|nick=Henry C. Bovell|appt=28 September, 1938<ref>Bovell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/28.|D7605784}} f. 28.</ref>|end=c. November, 1938<ref>Bovell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/28.|D7605784}} f. 28.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Terence Hugh Back|nick=Terence H. Back|appt=31 July, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}|end=3 November, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Percival Henry Gwynne James|nick=Percival H. G. James|appt=3 November, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}|end=19 June, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (retired)|name=Henry Hutchinson Robson|nick=Henry H. Robson|appt=19 June, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}|end=24 September, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Percival Henry Gwynne James|nick=Percival H. G. James|appt=24 September, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}|end=17 November, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (retired)|name=Henry Hutchinson Robson|nick=Henry H. Robson|appt=20 December, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}|end=|note=some confusion here}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommRN}} (retired)|name=Henry Hutchinson Robson|nick=Henry H. Robson|appt=8 November, 1942<ref>Robson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/98.|}} f. 125.</ref>|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=George Eric Maxia O'Donnell|nick=George E. M. O'Donnell|appt=17 November, 1942<ref>O'Donnell Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/56.|D7605961}} f. 14.</ref>|end=28 December, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}|note="vice James"}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Livingston Robertson|nick=Charles L. Robertson|appt=28 December, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}|end=27 August, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain (retired)|name=Henry Freston Nash|nick=Henry F. Nash|appt=17 April, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}|end=late 1944{{UBAllyWarship|1189}}}}
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</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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{{WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Colombo_(D89)}}
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{{refbegin}}
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* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Capetown.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Capetown_(D88)}}
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{{refend}}
  
 
==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Latest revision as of 09:50, 5 November 2021

H.M.S. Capetown (1919)
Pendant Number: 88 (Nov 1919)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird
Laid down: 23 Feb, 1918
Launched: 18 Jun, 1919
Sold: Apr, 1948

Service

Capetown was re-commissioned at Devonport on 16 October, 1924 for service with the Eighth Cruiser Squadron on the America and West Indies Station.[2]

She was commissioned on 1 July, 1927 for service with the Eighth Cruiser Squadron on the America and West Indies Station.[3]

Re-commissioned on 31 December, 1929.[4]

Commissioned on 15 December, 1933.[5]

Commissioned on 17 July, 1934 under the command of Captain Douglas A. Budgen for service on the China Station.[6]

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 30 July, 1936.[7]

Fire Control

Listed in June 1918 as one of eight light cruisers to receive a Mark III* Dreyer Table, presumably in place at time of completion.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 221.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 222.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 220.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 220.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 220.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 221.
  8. ↑ Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. p. 3.
  9. ↑ Briggs Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/421. f. 427.
  10. ↑ Briggs Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/421. f. 427.
  11. ↑ Roynon-Jones Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/101. f. 101.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 733.
  13. ↑ Roynon-Jones Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/101. f. 101.
  14. ↑ Dewar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 59.
  15. ↑ Dewar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 59.
  16. ↑ Knowles Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/52. f. 257.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 222.
  18. ↑ Knowles Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/52. f. 257.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 221.
  20. ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 384.
  21. ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 384.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 222.
  23. ↑ Tait Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/328. f. 343.
  24. ↑ Tait Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/328. f. 343.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 221.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 220.
  27. ↑ Pelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/27. f. 379.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 220.
  29. ↑ Budgen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/92/97. f. 97.
  30. ↑ Budgen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/267. f. 637.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 221.
  32. ↑ Coppinger Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52. f. 684.
  33. ↑ Coppinger Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52. f. 684.
  34. ↑ Bovell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/28. f. 28.
  35. ↑ Bovell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/28. f. 28.
  36. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  37. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  38. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  39. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  40. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  41. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  42. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  43. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  44. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  45. ↑ Robson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/98. f. 125.
  46. ↑ O'Donnell Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56. f. 14.
  47. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  48. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  49. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  50. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  51. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.

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).
  • 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.


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