H.M.S. Prince Eugene (1915)

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H.M.S. Prince Eugene (1915)
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]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Service

Prince Eugene received a very high priority for receiving directors, and the order for her equipment was completed in 1915.[10]

Her gunnery officer during war was William Lindsay Jackson.

Paid off 12 November, 1918.[11]

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.[12]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 397c.
  8. ↑ Wigram Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 388.
  9. ↑ Wigram Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 388.
  10. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, p. 13.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 847-9.
  12. ↑ 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.


Lord Clive Class Monitor
  Earl of Peterborough General Craufurd General Wolfe Lord Clive  
  Prince Eugene Prince Rupert Sir John Moore Sir Thomas Picton  
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