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''Prince Eugene'' received a very high priority for receiving directors, and the order for her equipment was completed in 1915.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships'', p. 13.</ref> | ''Prince Eugene'' received a very high priority for receiving directors, and the order for her equipment was completed in 1915.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships'', p. 13.</ref> | ||
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H.M.S. Prince Eugene (1915) | |
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Pendant Number: | M.10 (Apr 1915) M.11 (Jan 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Harland & Wolff, Govan[2] |
Laid down: | 1 Feb, 1915[3] |
Launched: | 14 Jul, 1915[4] |
Commissioned: | Sep, 1915[5] |
Sold: | 9 May, 1921[6] |
Gunnery Officer during War, William Lindsay Jackson.
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Ernest Wigram, in command in August 1915.[7]
Service
Prince Eugene received a very high priority for receiving directors, and the order for her equipment was completed in 1915.[8]
Paid off 12 November, 1918.[9]
18-inch Monitor
Along with General Wolfe and Lord Clive, Prince Eugene received an 18-inch gun in 1918. Orders for her updated bombardment director equipment were completed by October, 1918, but unlike her sisters, this equipment was never fitted.[10]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
- ↑ Naval Operations. Volume III. p. 148.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, p. 13.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 847-9.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, p. 14.
Bibliography
- Buxton, Ian L. (1978). Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors. Tynemouth: World Ship Society. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
- Gilbert, Martin (1971). Winston S. Churchill: The Challenge of War 1914–1916. III. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0395131537.
- Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.
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