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==Captains== | ==Captains== | ||
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==Alterations== | ==Alterations== | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:56, 6 April 2018
H.M.S. Glatton (1914) | |
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Pendant Number: | N.02 (Sep 1915) N.50 (Jan, 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Company, Elswick[2] |
Laid down: | 26 May, 1913[3] |
Launched: | 8 Aug, 1914[4] |
Commissioned: | Sep, 1918[5] |
Exploded: | 16 Sep, 1918[6] |
Fate: | internal explosion at Dover[7] |
Service
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Neston W. Diggle, 24 June, 1918 – 16 September, 1918[8] (vessel lost under his command)
Alterations
Glatton's main and second-battery directors were installed by the time she was commissioned, specifically September 1918.[9]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 102.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 47.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 47.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 102.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 47.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 47.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 102.
- ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 140.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919. p. 15.
Bibliography
- Buxton, Ian L. (1978). Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors. Tynemouth: World Ship Society. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- 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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