H.M.S. Ceres (1917)

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H.M.S. Ceres (1917)
Pendant Number: 66 (1914)
36 (Jan 1918)
58 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Ordered: Mar/Apr 1916[3]
Laid down: 11 Jul, 1916[4]
Launched: 24 Mar, 1917[5]
Commissioned: Jun, 1917[6]
Sold: 5 Apr, 1946[7]
Fate: Broken up Hughes Bolckow[8]

Service

Ceres was fitted with a director in June, 1917. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[9]

Ceres was one of just six light cruisers listed as having a Turret Control Table in her TS in June 1918. If and when this was provided is uncertain.[10]

She recommissioned on 1 November, 1920.[11]

Ceres re-commissioned on 18 September, 1922.[12]

Following a refit, she was re-commissioned on 11 June, 1925.[13] On 20 July, she left Chatham to join the Third Cruiser Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet.[14]

Ceres re-commissioned at Chatham on 8 December, 1927 for duty with the Third Cruiser Squadron on the Mediterranean Station.[15]

She re-commissioned in Reserve at Devonport on 6 May, 1931.[16]

Ceres was refitted in 1930-31 at a cost of £120,000, and commissioned at Chatham in May 1932 to replace the Calypso.[17] She duly commissioned at Chatham on 12 May, 1932 for duty with the Third Cruiser Squadron on the Mediterranean Station under the command of Captain George Arthur Scott.[18]

She paid off into Reserve at Chatham on 27 November, 1933.[19]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 61.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 61.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 61.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 49.
  9. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  10. Handbook for Capt. F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables. p. 3.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 744.
  12. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 224.
  13. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 224.
  14. "Naval and Military." The Times (London, England), 20 July 1925, p. 10.
  15. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 224.
  16. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 223.
  17. "The Services." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, May 4, 1932, Issue 46124, p.4.
  18. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 222.
  19. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 222.
  20. Tomlin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 52.
  21. Tomlin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 52.
  22. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392h.
  23. Meade Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 177.
  24. Meade Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 177.
  25. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 755.
  26. Reinold Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/377. ff. 218, 377.
  27. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 744.
  28. Reinold Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/377. ff. 218, 377.
  29. Im Thurn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 188.
  30. Im Thurn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 188.
  31. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  32. Day of month taken from predecessor. Im Thurn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 188.
  33. Blagrove Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 47.
  34. Blagrove Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51. f. 47.
  35. Inferred from successor's appointment. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  36. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  37. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  38. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 224.
  39. Maxwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 451.
  40. Maxwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 451.
  41. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 224.
  42. Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  43. Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  44. Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. ?.
  45. Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. ?.
  46. Sommerville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/10. f. 413.
  47. Sommerville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/10. f. 413.
  48. Merriman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/53. f. 408.
  49. Merriman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/53. f. 408.
  50. Cavendish Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/19. ff. 179, 235.
  51. Cavendish Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/19. ff. 179, 235.
  52. Lydekker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/226. f. 584.
  53. Lydekker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/226. f. 584.
  54. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 222.
  55. Hynes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52. f. 395.
  56. Hynes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52. f. 395.
  57. "Command of the Ceres." The Times (London, England), 9 May 1935, p. 28.
  58. "Command of the Ceres." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 06, 1935; pg. 17; Issue 47109.
  59. "Command of the Ceres." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 06, 1935; pg. 17; Issue 47109.
  60. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 222.
  61. Grey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/160. f. 160.
  62. Grey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/160. f. 160.
  63. Harding Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/165. f. 165.
  64. Harding Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/165. f. 165.
  65. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 4 May 1938, p. 20.
  66. Garland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/103. f. 105.
  67. Garland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/103. f. 105.
  68. Garland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/103. f. 105.
  69. Garland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/103. f. 105.
  70. Garland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/103. f. 105.
  71. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 24 June 1939, p. 18.
  72. Uboat.net page on the ship.
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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, 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.
  • 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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