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==Service==
==Service==
She paid off on 13 July, 1918.{{NLJan21|p. 751}}
On 28 March, 1916, a boat accident killed 39 of her crew.{{Kindell|ROH2|p. v}}
 
''Conquest'' paid off on 13 July, 1918.{{NLJan21|p. 751}}


==Alterations==
==Alterations==
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 13:42, 21 April 2014

H.M.S. Conquest (1915)
Pendant Number: C0 (1914)
48 (Jan 1918)
37 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 3 Mar, 1914[3]
Launched: 20 Jan, 1915[4]
Commissioned: Jun, 1915[5]
Sold: 29 Aug, 1930[6]
Fate: to Metal Industries, Rosyth[7]

Service

On 28 March, 1916, a boat accident killed 39 of her crew.Template:Kindell

Conquest paid off on 13 July, 1918.[8]

Alterations

Conquest was fitted with a director in March, 1918. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[9]

At some point likely after the end of the war, she received a Dreyer Turret Control Table in her TS.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 751.
  9. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  10. ↑ absent from Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3, present in Pamphlet on the Turret Dreyer Table as fitted in the turrets of H.M. battleships and in the transmitting stations of certain cruisers, 1930, p. 4.
  11. ↑ Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  12. ↑ Backhouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 474.
  13. ↑ Henley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 44.
  14. ↑ The Navy List (November, 1917). p. 392q.
  15. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 764.
  16. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  18. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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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