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==History== | ==History== | ||
Revision as of 20:47, 18 October 2014
Rear-Admirals Commanding
Dates of appointment given:
- Rear-Admiral Trevylyan D. W. Napier, 8 February, 1915[1]
- Rear-Admiral Allen T. Hunt, 1 January, 1918[2]
- Rear-Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair, 1919
- Vice-Admiral Sir George P. W. Hope, 5 August, 1919[3] – 1921
- Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Bart., 1921[Fact Check]
History
1915
The squadron was:[4]
- Gloucester
- Liverpool
- other Bristol class?
November, 1915
Attached to Battle Cruiser Fleet. Liverpool has been temporarily attached to the Grand Fleet.[5]
Battle of Jutland
The cruisers now have a seaplane carrier attached.[6]
- Falmouth, Captain John Douglas Edwards
Rear-Admiral Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier - Yarmouth, Captain Thomas D. Pratt
- Birkenhead, Captain Edward Reeves
- Gloucester, Captain William Frederick Blunt
- seaplane carrier Engadine, Lieutenant-Commander Charles Gwillim Robinson
July, 1918
The Squadron is now:[7]
November, 1918
The Squadron has lost Yarmouth, which transferred to the Second Light Cruiser Squadron.[8]
In August 1919, the squadron was briefly under the flag of Centaur and then Cardiff.[9]
Drill and Practice
In 1917, the squadron fired 16 practice torpedoes of which 13 or 81% were judged to be likely to endanger the enemy.[10]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. p. 26.
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. p. 26.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 741.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. p. 58.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1915). p. 11.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 33, 46.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (July, 1918). p. 11.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (November, 1918). p. 11.
- ↑ The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 741.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 121.
Bibliography
| Light Cruiser Squadrons of the Royal Navy |
| First Light Cruiser Squadron | Second Light Cruiser Squadron | Third Light Cruiser Squadron | Fourth Light Cruiser Squadron | Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron | Sixth Light Cruiser Squadron | Seventh Light Cruiser Squadron | Eighth Light Cruiser Squadron |
