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==See Also==
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Revision as of 18:49, 10 October 2012

H.M.A.S. Sydney (1912)
Pendant Number: A1 (Jan 1918)
52 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: London & Glasgow[2]
Laid down: 11 Feb, 1911[3]
Launched: 29 Aug, 1912[4]
Commissioned: Jun, 1913[5]
Broken up: 1846[6]
Fate: in Cockatoo Dockyard[7]

Alterations

Sydney was fitted with a director in December, 1917. This alteration may have required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 53.
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  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 46.
  8. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  9. Naval Operations. Volume I. pp. 381-4.
  10. The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 951.

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.


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