H.M.S. Castor (1915)
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H.M.S. Castor (1915) | |
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Pendant Number: | C4 (1914) 33 (Jan 1918) 20 (Apr 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Cammell Laird[2] |
Laid down: | 28 Oct, 1914[3] |
Launched: | 28 Jul, 1915[4] |
Commissioned: | Nov, 1915[5] |
Sold: | Jul, 1936[6] |
Fate: | Broken up |
H.M.S. Castor was the first of four Cambrian class light cruisers completed in 1915 and 1916.
Service
She fought at the Battle of Jutland as flag cruiser of the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla.[7]
She recommissioned at Chatham on 18 April, 1920.[8]
Alterations
Castor was fitted with a director in January, 1918. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[9]
Equipment
In 1919, she was selected to receive one of the first five Renouf Torpedo Tactical Instrument Type As.[10]
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain James Rose Price Hawksley, November 1915.[11]
- Captain (soon Commodore, Second Class) Hugh J. Tweedie, November, 1917.[12]
- Captain Leonard Laurence Peel Willan, 21 December 1920.[13]
- Captain Aubrey T. Tillard, August 1922.[14]
- Captain Alban T. B. Curteis, October 1927.[15]
- Captain Wilfred Neville Custance, June 1928.[16]
- Captain W. Frederic Wake-Walker, May 1929.[17]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 48.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 59.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 743.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1919. p. 118.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 754.
- ↑ The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 743.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
Bibliography
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
- 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.
- Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.
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