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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe|nick=Louis C. S. Woollcombe|appt=8 September, 1916{{NLNov17|p. 392''i''}}<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 267.</ref>|end=1 January, 1918<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 267.</ref>|note=and as Second in Command, {{UK-LCS|3}} from 24 December, 1917}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Theodore John Hallett|nick=Theodore J. Hallett|appt=1 January, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 756}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Theodore John Hallett|nick=Theodore J. Hallett|appt=1 January, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 756}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alan Geoffrey Hotham|nick=Alan G. Hotham|appt=24 May, 1920{{NLDec20|p. 953-8}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alan Geoffrey Hotham|nick=Alan G. Hotham|appt=24 May, 1920{{NLDec20|p. 953-8}}}}

Revision as of 10:21, 25 March 2015

H.M.S. Chatham (1911)
Pendant Number: 37 (1914)
38 (Jan 1918)
18 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 3 Jan, 1911[3]
Launched: 19 Nov, 1911[4]
Commissioned: Dec, 1912[5]
Sold: 13 Jul, 1926[6]

Service

Commissioned at Chatham on 3 December, 1912. She was ordered to join the Second Battle Squadron on 5 July 1913, but may have been attached to it previously.[7]

Alterations

Chatham was fitted with a director in September, 1918. This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 292.
  8. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392s.
  10. ↑ Drury-Lowe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 214.
  11. ↑ Bromley Service record. The National Archives. 196/44. f. 239.
  12. ↑ Bromley Service record. The National Archives. 196/44. f. 239.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392i.
  14. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 267.
  15. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 267.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 756.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 953-8.
  18. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
  20. ↑ 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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