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==Captains==
 
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Revision as of 18:41, 6 May 2014

H.M.S. Courageous (1916)
Pendant Number: 51 (Jan 1918)
94 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Elswick[2]
Laid down: 28 Mar, 1915[3]
Launched: 5 Feb, 1916[4]
Commissioned: Jan, 1917[5]
Torpedoed: 17 Sep, 1939[6]
Fate: by U 29[7]

Service

While working up for full-power trials off May Island on the night of 8 January, 1917, was damaged while being driven at 30 knots when the wind force was 6-8 (Strong Breeze to a Gale). The damage was:

The forecastle deck between the breakwater and "A" turret was severely buckled, and the side plating buckled between upper and forecastle deck; also the oil-fuel tanks and reserve feed tanks and reserve feed tanks were reported to be leaking.

Stiffening was worked into both Courageous and her sister ship Glorious at the first opportunity.[8]

She recommissioned at Rosyth on 4 December, 1919.[9]

Alterations

Her secondary battery directors were installed in November, 1916, prior to her commissioning.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 37.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 37.
  8. ↑ Records of Warship Construction during the War. 1914—1918. Volume I. ADM 1/8547/430. f. 102.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 752.
  10. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. p. 16.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 767.
  12. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 752.
  14. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography

See Also


Courageous Class Battlecruiser
  Courageous Glorious  
<– Renown Class Major Cruisers (UK) H.M.S. Furious –>


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