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Revision as of 11:41, 18 December 2014

In Command

Dates of appointment given:

History

July, 1914

The squadron was:[6]

Outbreak of War

Two additional light cruisers have reinforced the squadron.[7][8]

November, 1915

Attached to the Battle Cruiser Fleet.[9]

Battle of Jutland

Main article: First L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland

The squadron was one of three screening the battlecruisers:[10]

17 November, 1917

At the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight[11]

Screened by:

July, 1918

The Squadron is still assigned to screen the Battle Cruiser Force.[12]

November, 1918

No change since July.[13]

This roster would apply until March, 1919.[14]

March, 1919

Now attached to the Battle Cruiser Force, Cleopatra has joined,[15] coming from the Seventh Light Cruiser Squadron.[16]

April, 1919

Still attached to the Battle Cruiser Force, Comus has joined,[17] having come from the Fourth Light Cruiser Squadron,[18] bringing the strength to seven light cruisers.

May, 1919

A considerable reorganization has occurred. All the ships except Comus (which is a "miscellaneous ship in commission") have been left to embody, with Champion, the Home Fleet's Second Light Cruiser Squadron.

1 L.C.S. is now part of the Atlantic Fleet; the reinvented squadron is comprised the six very modern light cruisers that were dubbed the Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron just a month ago.[19][20]

June, 1919

Still part of the Atlantic Fleet, the squadron is now eight light cruisers.[21] Danae is on her way, having just entered service while Cleopatra has come over from the Second Light Cruiser Squadron and Canterbury has recently been recommissioned.[22]

July, 1919

Still part of the Atlantic Fleet, Delhi seems to have fully arrived and assumed flagship duties.[23]

Drill and Practice

In 1917, the squadron fired 56 practice torpedoes of which 45 or 80% were judged to be likely to endanger the enemy.[24]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 5.
  2. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1917). p. 6.
  3. ↑ Alexander-Sinclair Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 361.
  4. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 5.
  5. ↑ Cowan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 249.
  6. ↑ Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
  7. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 440.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 15.
  9. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1915). p. 11.
  10. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 33, 46.
  11. ↑ Naval Operations. Vol. V. pp. 168-169.
  12. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 11.
  13. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1918). p. 11.
  14. ↑ Supplements from December, 1918 through March, 1919.
  15. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 10.
  16. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 10.
  17. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (April, 1919). p. 10.
  18. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 10.
  19. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (May, 1919). pp. 10, 12, 19.
  20. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (April, 1919). p 13.
  21. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (June, 1919). p. 10.
  22. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (May, 1919). pp. 12, 20.
  23. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 10.
  24. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 121.

Bibliography


Light Cruiser Squadrons of the Royal Navy
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