H.M.S. Cleopatra (1915)

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H.M.S. Cleopatra (1915)
Pendant Number: 1A (1914)
40 (Jan 1918)
88 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Laid down: 26 Feb, 1914[3]
Launched: 14 Jan, 1915[4]
Commissioned: Jun, 1915[5]
Sold: 1931[6]
Fate: to Hughes Bolckow[7]

H.M.S. Cleopatra was one of six Caroline class light cruisers completed for the Royal Navy early in the Great War.

Service

Upon her completion in mid-1915, Cleopatra joined the Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron, which was a component of the Harwich Force.

Cleopatra joined the Seventh Light Cruiser Squadron, which was supporting the Battle Fleet, around November 1918.

Cleopatra joined the First Light Cruiser Squadron around March 1919.

Cleopatra joined the Second Light Cruiser Squadron around May 1919. After about one month, she returned to the First Light Cruiser Squadron, where she became the flagship.

Cleopatra was recommissioned at Portsmouth on 25 October, 1920.[8]

She recommissioned at Chatham on 16 October, 1923.[9]

She recommissioned 3 January, 1925 for service with the Second Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet.[10]

She paid off into Dockyard Control on 8 December, 1926.[11]

Cleopatra was re-commissioned at Chatham on 31 December, 1928.[12]

Alterations

Cleopatra was fitted with a director in July, 1917. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[13]

At some point likely after the end of the war, she received a Dreyer Turret Control Table in her T.S..[14]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 746.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 225.
  10. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 225.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 224.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 225.
  13. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  14. absent from Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3, present in Pamphlet on the Turret Dreyer Table as fitted in the turrets of H.M. battleships and in the transmitting stations of certain cruisers, 1930. p. 4.
  15. Loder-Symonds Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/186. f. 212.
  16. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392k.
  17. Loder-Symonds Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/186. f. 212.
  18. Alington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/336. f. 336.
  19. Alington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/336. f. 336.
  20. Loder-Symonds Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/186. f. 212.
  21. Loder-Symonds Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/186. f. 212.
  22. The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 758.
  23. Petre Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/434. f. 485.
  24. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p.758.
  25. Petre Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/434. f. 485.
  26. Little Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/95. f. 300.
  27. The Navy List. (May, 1919). p. 758.
  28. Little Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/95. f. 300.
  29. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 746.
  30. Rashleigh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/117. f. ?.
  31. Rashleigh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/117. f. ?.
  32. Colville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/231. f. 235.
  33. Colville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/231. f. 235.
  34. Denison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/456. f. 526.
  35. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 737.
  36. Denison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/456. f. 526.
  37. Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
  38. Burke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 138.
  39. Eliot Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/15. f. 15.
  40. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 225.
  41. Eliot Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/15. f. 15.
  42. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 225.
  43. Sells Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 196.
  44. Sells Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 196.
  45. Stokes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/103. f. 103. Inferring from Sells.
  46. Stokes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/103. f. 103.
  47. The Navy List. (January, 1928). p. 224.
  48. Bramble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 234.
  49. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 225.
  50. Holbrook Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 219.
  51. Mackinnon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/228. f. 232.
  52. Mackinnon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/228. f. 232.

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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