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Revision as of 13:16, 15 March 2015

H.M.S. Dunedin (1918)
Pendant Number: 96 (Aug 1919)[1]
Builder: Armstrong[2]
Laid down: Nov, 1917[3]
Launched: 19 Nov, 1918[4]
Commissioned: 13 Sep, 1919[5]
Torpedoed: 24 Nov, 1941[6]
Fate: by U 124

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Fire Control

Listed in June 1918 as one of eight light cruisers to receive a Mark III* Dreyer Table, presumably in place at time of completion.[10]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 50.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 763.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  7. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 763.
  8. Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
  9. Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 210.
  10. Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. p. 3.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.


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