Third Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
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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 George Price Webley Hope 5 August, 1919.[3]
- Rear-Admiral Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt,
Composition
1915[4]
- Gloucester
- Liverpool
- other Bristol class?
November, 1915[5]
Attached to Battle Cruiser Fleet. Liverpool has been temporarily attached to the Grand Fleet.
Battle of Jutland[6]
The cruisers now have a seaplane carrier attached.
- Falmouth, Captain John Douglas Edwards
Rear-Admiral Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier - Yarmouth, Captain Thomas Drummond Pratt
- Birkenhead, Captain Edward Reeves
- Gloucester, Captain William Frederick Blunt
- seaplane carrier Engadine, Lieutenant-Commander Charles Gwillim Robinson
November, 1918[7]
In August 1919, the squadron was briefly under the flag of Template:UK-CEntaur and then Cardiff.[8]
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.[9]
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 Monthly 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 (November, 1911). p. 11.
- ↑ The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 741.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 121.
Bibliography
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