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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 21:02, 3 November 2015

H.M.S. Falmouth (1910)
Pendant Number: 90 (1914)[1]
Builder: Beardmore[2]
Laid down: 21 Feb, 1910[3]
Launched: 20 Sep, 1910[4]
Commissioned: Sep, 1911[5]
Torpedoed: 19 Aug, 1916
Fate: by U 63

Service

In early 1913, she was attached to the Second Battle Squadron, but was to join the Second Light Cruiser Squadron on 30 June.[6]

On 5 August, 1914, she lost two seamen to drowning - the first Royal Navy operational casualties in the Great War.[7]

Battle of Jutland

At the Battle of Jutland, she was one of four light cruisers of the Third Light Cruiser Squadron screening the battlecruisers, operating under Captain John D. Edwards.[8]

Alterations

In October 1914, the ship was to be given 4 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[9]

Falmouth was lost before she could be fitted with a director.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 52.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 52.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 312.
  7. ↑ Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 1.
  8. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 33, 46.
  9. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  10. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 312.
  12. ↑ Grant Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 461.
  13. ↑ Grant Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 461.
  14. ↑ Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 440.
  15. ↑ Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 440.
  16. ↑ "Naval and Military" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 1 December, 1913. Issue 40383, col F, p. 72.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 394d.

Bibliography


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