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Revision as of 18:31, 16 August 2012
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Hubert Grant-Dalton, .
- Captain Cecil Spencer Hickley, .
- Captain Francis William Kennedy, .
- Captain Charles Windham, .
- Captain William Blake Fisher, 6 July to 26 August, 1901.[Citation needed]
Torpedoes
In 1904, in a competition to investigate how rapidly submerged tubes could be fired four times sequentially, starting with the tube loaded and the bar out, the ship's crew was able to do this in 5 minutes, 15 seconds. The best time was achieved by Cressy at 50.75 seconds, though times of 3-5 minutes were more typical.[1]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1904, pp. 45-7.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
