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==Fire Control==
 
==Fire Control==

Revision as of 21:02, 23 September 2012

H.M.S. Capetown (1919)
Pendant Number: 88 (Nov 1919)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird
Laid down: 23 Feb, 1918
Launched: 18 Jun, 1919
Sold: Apr, 1948


Fire Control

Listed in June 1918 as one of 8 light cruisers to receive a Mark III* Dreyer Table, presumably in place at time of completion.[2]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919.
  2. Handbook for Capt. FC Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

  • 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.


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