H.M.S. Caledon (1916)

H.M.S. Caledon (1916)
Pendant Number:	69 (Apr 1917) 22 (Jan 1918) 65 (Apr 1918)
Builder:	Cammell Laird
Ordered:	Dec, 1915
Laid down:	17 Mar, 1916
Launched:	25 Nov, 1916
Commissioned:	Mar, 1917
Sold:	Jan, 1948
Fate:	Broken up

H.M.S. Caledon was launched in 1916 — one of four light cruisers of her class.

Service

Caledon was fitted with a director in June, 1917. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity. Following successful tests in Yarmouth in June, 1917, Caledon was one of three other light cruisers to receive a flying-off platform on her forecastle for a Sopwith Pup some few weeks later.

In May, 1919, Caledon was chosen as the flagship for a new Second Light Cruiser Squadron.

In mid-1920, it was ordered that Caledon should replace her 21-in Mark IV S.L. torpedoes with their Mark IV* version.

Caledon re-commissioned at Chatham on 6 January, 1925.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Captain Claud H. Sinclair, February, 1917
• Captain Walter Henry Cowan, 7 July, 1917
• Commander Henry S. M. Harrison-Wallace, September, 1917
• Captain Geoffrey Mackworth, 22 March, 1919 – May, 1919  (and as Flag Captain to R/A Cowan)
• Commodore, Second Class Arthur A. M. Duff, 14 May, 1919 – 25 May, 1919
• Commodore, Second Class Arthur A. M. Duff, 22 June, 1919 – 1 January, 1920  (and as Senior Naval Officer, Baltic)
• Captain Everard J. Hardman-Jones, 23 November, 1920 – May, 1921  (and as Flag Captain to R/A Duff of Second Light Cruiser Squadron from 31 December)
• Captain Rafe G. Rowley-Conwy, 14 May, 1921 – September, 1921  (and as Captain (D), Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Algernon H. C. Candy, 3 January, 1922 – 15 September, 1922
• Captain Dudley B. N. North, 15 September, 1922 – 9 April, 1924
• Captain Fischer B. Watson, 9 April, 1924 – April, 1926
• Captain Miles B. Birkett, 9 April, 1926 – 17 August, 1926
• Captain Claude C. Dobson, 30 June, 1927 – 8 August, 1927  (for trials)
• Captain Hubert Ardill, 21 December, 1927
• Captain John U. P. Fitzgerald, December, 1929
• Commander Arthur R. Farquhar, 10 July, 1933 – 24 October, 1933
• Captain Cecil N. Reyne, December, 1933 – 2 July, 1934  (and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
• Captain James Powell, July, 1934 – 1936
• Captain Guy L. Warren, 27 November, 1934 – 7 May, 1935
• Captain Ralph Kerr, 20 July, 1936 – 4 November, 1936  (and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
• Captain Frederick R. M. Johnson, April, 1938 – July, 1939
• Captain Charles P. Clarke, July, 1939 – March, 1941
• Captain Stuart H. Paton, March, 1941 – April, 1941
• Captain Henry J. Haynes, April, 1941 – August, 1942
• Captain Reginald F. Nichols, December, 1943 – November, 1944
• Captain John R. S. Brown, November, 1944 – April, 1945

See Also

• Wikipedia

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.
• 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.