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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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*  {{CaptRN}} [[Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble]], 10 March, 1919.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'', (December 1920).  p. 738.</ref>
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*  Captain [[Walter Burdge Compton]], March, 1921.{{MackieRNW}}
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*  Captain [[Henry Karslake Kitson]], February, 1923.{{MackieRNW}}
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*  Captain [[Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay]], August, 1924.{{MackieRNW}}
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*  Captain [[Andrew Browne Cunningham, First Viscount Cunningham|Andrew Browne Cunningham]], May, 1926.{{MackieRNW}}
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*  Captain [[Alfred Englefield Evans]], September, 1928.{{MackieRNW}}
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*  Captain [[Stuart Sumner Bonham-Carter|Stuart S. Bonham-Carter]], December, 1928.{{MackieRNW}}
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*  Captain [[Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar|Kenneth Dewar]], ?.{{FC}}
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Revision as of 19:22, 6 May 2014

H.M.S. Calcutta (1918)
Pendant Number: 74 (Aug 1919)[1]
Builder: Vickers
Laid down: 18 Oct, 1917
Launched: 9 Jul, 1918
Sunk:
Fate: Sunk 1 June, 1941

Service

In early 1921, she was flagship of the Eighth Light Cruiser Squadron.[2]

Fire Control

Listed in June 1918 as one of eight light cruisers to receive a Mark III* Dreyer Table, presumably in place at time of completion.[3]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919.
  2. ↑ The Navy List, (January, 1921), p. 738.
  3. ↑ Handbook for Capt. FC Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 738.
  5. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  6. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  7. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  8. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  9. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  10. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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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