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==Career==
 
==Career==

Revision as of 16:54, 23 September 2012

H.M.S. Achilles (1905)
Pendant Number: 24 (1914)
00 (Jan 1918)
N.03 (Apr, 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Elswick[2]
Ordered: 1903-04 Programme[3]
Laid down: 22 Feb, 1904[4]
Launched: 17 Jun, 1905[5]
Commissioned: 22 Apr, 1907[6]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[7]
Fate: to Ward, Briton Ferry[8]


Career

On 19 March, 1907, Achilles was manned at Newcastle by a navigating party consisting of the nucleus crew of Andromeda and men from the Sheerness-Chatham barracks, numbering 333 officers and men in all, to begin her machinery acceptance trial.[9]

Alterations

An order for a design for a director system for Achilles was issued 22 February, 1915, and an order for its manufacture given 26 August, 1916. Priorities for director fittings were such that it was installed in October, 1918.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 72.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 72.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 72.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 72.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 72.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  9. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 19 March, 1907. Issue 38284, col F, p. 9.
  10. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships, 1919. p. 15.
  11. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 272.
  12. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1913). p. 272.
  13. ↑ Cay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 66.
  14. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1915). p. 391a.
  15. ↑ Radcliffe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 342.
  16. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 722.

Bibliography

See Also


Warrior Class Armoured Cruiser
  Achilles Cochrane Natal Warrior  
<– Duke of Edinburgh Class Major Cruisers (UK) Minotaur Class –>
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