H.M.S. Calliope (1914)

Career	Details
H.M.S. Calliope
Pendant Numbers:	76 (1914) 23 (Jan 1918) 78 (Apr 1918)^[1]
Built By:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid Down:
Launched:	17 December, 1914
Commissioned:
Sold:
Fate:

Alterations

Calliope was fitted with a director in March, 1918. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.^[2]

At some point likely after the end of the war, she received a Dreyer Turret Control Table in her T.S..^[3]

Footnotes

↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919. p. 48.
↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, pp. 11-12.
↑ 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.

Bibliography

Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
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[1] Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919. p. 48.

[2] The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, pp. 11-12.

[3] 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.

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