H.M.S. Devonshire (1927): Difference between revisions

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H.M.S. Devonshire was one of four London Class cruisers completed for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s.

There was an earlier armoured cruiser named H.M.S. Devonshire that fought in the Great War.

Devonshire commissioned for trials on 1 January, 1929.^[6]

She commissioned at Devonport on 19 March, 1929 under the command of Flag Captain Henry Clive Rawlings, who had seen her through her trials.^[7]

Captain Henry C. Rawlings, 15 November, 1928^[8] – 17 August, 1931^[9] (initially for trials, later as Flag Captain to Henley)
Captain Douglas B. Le Mottée, 17 August, 1931 – March, 1933
Captain Leonard F. Potter, 3 February, 1933 – February, 1934^[10]
Captain Herbert Fitzherbert, 1 January, 1934 – January, 1936 (and as Flag Captain from c. 1934)
Captain George P. Thomson, 12 December, 1935 – November, 1936^[11]
Captain Gerard C. Muirhead-Gould, November, 1936^[12] – May, 1939^[13]
Captain John M. Mansfield, 10 May, 1939 – 29 October, 1940
Captain Robert D. Oliver, October, 1940^[14] – 24 November, 1942^[15]
Captain Douglas Young-Jamieson, 24 November, 1942^[16] – 18 June, 1943^[17]
Captain Donald K. Bain, February, 1944^[18] – January, 1945^[19]
Captain Gerald M. B. Langley, January, 1945^[20] – January, 1946^[21]
Captain John R. S. Brown, January, 1946^[22] – May, 1948^[23]
Captain St. John Cronyn, May, 1948^[24] – December, 1949^[25]
Captain Graham H. Stokes, December, 1949^[26] – April, 1952^[27]
Captain William G. Crawford, April, 1952^[28] – 1953^[29]

London Class Heavy Cruiser

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