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H.M.S. Devonshire (1927)
Builder:	Devonport Royal Dockyard^[1]
Laid down:	16 Mar, 1926^[2]
Launched:	22 Oct, 1927^[3]
Commissioned:	19 Mar, 1929^[4]
Broken up:	1954^[5]

H.M.S. Devonshire was one of four London Class cruisers completed for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s.

There was an earlier armoured cruiser named H.M.S. Devonshire that fought in the Great War.

Service

Devonshire commissioned for trials on 1 January, 1929.^[6]

She commissioned at Devonport on 19 March, 1929 under the command of Flag Captain Henry Clive Rawlings, who had seen her through her trials.^[7]

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 14 October, 1931.^[8]

Commissioned at Plymouth on 2 February, 1934 for service with the First Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean.^[9]

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 3 November, 1936.^[10]

Captains

Captain Henry C. Rawlings, 15 November, 1928^[11] – 17 August, 1931^[12] (initially for trials, later as Flag Captain to Henley)
Captain Douglas B. Le Mottée, 17 August, 1931^[13] – March, 1933
Captain Leonard F. Potter, 3 February, 1933 – February, 1934^[14]
Captain Herbert Fitzherbert, 2 February, 1934^[15] – January, 1936 (and as Flag Captain from c. 1934)
Captain George P. Thomson, 12 December, 1935 – November, 1936^[16]
Captain Gerard C. Muirhead-Gould, November, 1936^[17] – May, 1939^[18]
Captain John M. Mansfield, 10 May, 1939 – 29 October, 1940
Captain Robert D. Oliver, October, 1940^[19] – 24 November, 1942^[20]
Captain Douglas Young-Jamieson, 24 November, 1942^[21] – 18 June, 1943^[22]
Commander Charles J. Blake, 18 June, 1943^[23] – 13 July, 1943^[24]
Commander Walter W. Sitwell, 13 July, 1943^[25] – 13 September, 1943^[26]
Commander John C. Richards, 18 September, 1943^[27] – 29 February, 1944^[28]
Captain Donald K. Bain, February, 1944^[29] – January, 1945^[30]
Captain Gerald M. B. Langley, January, 1945^[31] – January, 1946^[32]
Captain John R. S. Brown, January, 1946^[33] – May, 1948^[34]
Captain St. John Cronyn, May, 1948^[35] – December, 1949^[36]
Captain Graham H. Stokes, December, 1949^[37] – April, 1952^[38]
Captain William G. Crawford, April, 1952^[39] – 1953^[40]

Footnotes

↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 231.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.
↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 232.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 231.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 231.
↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 231.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 230.
↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 231.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 231.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 230.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.
↑ Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.
↑ Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ 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.
↑ 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

London Class Heavy Cruiser

Devonshire

London

Shropshire

Sussex

<–

Kent Class

Major Cruisers (UK)

York Class

–>

[1] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.

[2] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.

[3] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.

[4] The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 231.

[5] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 27.

[6] The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 232.

[7] The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 231.

[8] The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 231.

[9] The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 231.

[10] The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 230.

[11] Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.

[12] Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.

[13] The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 231.

[14] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[15] The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 231.

[16] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[17] The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 230.

[18] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[19] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[20] Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.

[21] Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.

[22] Young-Jamieson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/44. f. 44.

[23] Uboat.net page on the ship.

[24] Uboat.net page on the ship.

[25] Uboat.net page on the ship.

[26] Uboat.net page on the ship.

[27] Uboat.net page on the ship.

[28] Uboat.net page on the ship.

[29] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[30] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[31] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[32] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[33] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[34] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[35] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[36] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[37] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[38] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[39] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

[40] Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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