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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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*  {{CaptRN}} [[Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor|Frederick C. T. Tudor]], 14 March, 1909.<ref>Tudor Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 90.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor|nick=Frederick C. T. Tudor|appt=14 March, 1909<ref>Tudor Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 90.</ref>}}
*  Captain [[Herbert Leopold Heath|Herbert L. Heath]], 16 August, 1910.<ref>Heath Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 200.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Leopold Heath|nick=Herbert L. Heath|appt=16 August, 1910<ref>Heath Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 200.</ref>}}
*  Captain [[Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt|Ernest F. A. Gaunt]], 22 September, 1911.<ref>Gaunt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 276.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt|nick=Ernest F. A. Gaunt|appt=22 September, 1911<ref>Gaunt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 276.</ref>}}
*  Captain [[George Price Webley Hope|George P. W. Hope]], 30 April, 1913.<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 44.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Price Webley Hope|nick=George P. W. Hope|appt=30 April, 1913<ref>Hope Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 44.</ref>}}
*  Captain [[Price Vaughan Lewes|Price V. Lewes]], 28 July 1914.<ref>Lewes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 300.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Price Vaughan Lewes|nick=Price V. Lewes|appt=28 July, 1914<ref>Lewes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 300.</ref>}}
*  Captain [[Rudolf Walter Bentinck|Rudolf W. Bentinck]], 6 November, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1914).  p. 382''a''.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Rudolf Walter Bentinck|nick=Rudolf W. Bentinck|appt=6 November, 1914{{NLDec14|p. 382''a''}}}}
*  Captain [[Edmond Hyde Parker|E. Hyde Parker]], 20 February, 1915.<ref>Parker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 2.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edmond Hyde Parker|nick=E. Hyde Parker|appt=20 February, 1915<ref>Parker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 2.</ref>}}
*  Captain [[Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe|Sidney R. Drury-Lowe]], 2 February, 1918.<ref>Drury-Lowe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 214.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe|nick=Sidney R. Drury-Lowe|appt=2 February, 1918<ref>Drury-Lowe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 214.</ref>}}
*  Captain [[Stephen Herbert Radcliffe|Stephen H. Radcliffe]], 22 June 1918.<ref>Radcliffe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 342.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Stephen Herbert Radcliffe|nick=Stephen H. Radcliffe|appt=22 June, 1918<ref>Radcliffe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 342.</ref>}}
*  Captain [[Francis George Gillilan Chilton|Francis G. G. Chilton]], January, 1919.{{MackieRNW}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Francis George Gillilan Chilton|nick=Francis G. G. Chilton|appt=January, 1919{{MackieRNW}}}}
*  Captain [[Charles William Bruton|Charles W. Bruton]], 15 December, 1919.
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles William Bruton|nick=Charles W. Bruton|appt=15 December, 1919}}
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Revision as of 19:22, 6 May 2014

H.M.S. Superb (1907)
Pendant Number: 49 (1914)
A0 (Jan 1918)
49 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Elswick[2]
Laid down: 6 Feb, 1907[3]
Launched: 7 Nov, 1907[4]
Commissioned: 9 June, 1909
Sold: 12 Dec, 1922[5]
Fate: Scrapped

H.M.S. Superb was one of three dreadnoughts of the Bellerophon class.

Service

Six men were injured when a hawser broke while Superb was being taken out of No. 4 basin at Portsmouth Dockyard on 7 June, 1909. The three most serious cases were taken to Haslar Naval Hospital. On 9 June she was commissioned.[6]

Her motto was "Ense et animo".

Superb recommissioned at Portsmouth 6 May, 1913 for service with the First Battle Squadron.[7]

Great War

On 24 October, 1915, Superb was transferred from the First Battle Squadron to the Fourth Battle Squadron, exchanging places with Template:UK=Agincourt. She returned from refit at Cromarty on the 28th.[8]

Jutland

Main article: H.M.S. Superb at the Battle of Jutland

The ship was commanded by Captain Edmond Hyde Parker as part of the Fourth Battle Squadron.

Post-War

She paid off at the Nore on 25 March, 1920.[9]

Equipment

The ship was one of seven which tested Willis and Robinson Electric Revolution Telegraphs. Testing was completed in late 1913.[10]

Habitability

In October 1914, the ship was to be given 3 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[11]

Performance

Her tactical turning diameter was 405 yards at full speed (best of the class), with the rudder being put over in 10 seconds.[12]

Radio

By the end of 1913, she and the rest of the First Battle Squadron were all equipped with Battleship Auxiliary W/T sets.[13]

Alterations

Turrets

In October 1914, additions of screened-in positions within her turrets required the existing alternative plans for loading to be abolished, and required further alterations to support a new fall-back means of loading.[14]

Director

Superb was listed as part of the seventeen ship order in 1913 and received a director for her main battery sometime after the war started but prior to May, 1915.[15]

It appears that her director installation was tested for Tilt on 5 September, 1916. Her aloft director's greatest tilt was 8 arcminutes on a bearing of 348 degrees. Her turrets tilts were measured as follows: [16]

  • "A" 8.5 arcminutes at 344 degrees
  • "P" 7.5 arcminutes at 349 degrees
  • "Q" 6.0 arcminutes at 6 degrees
  • "X" 3.5 arcminutes at 353 degrees
  • "Y" 5.0 arcminutes at 352 degrees

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 22.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  6. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 8 June, 1909. Issue 38980, col E, p. 9.
  7. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 378.
  8. ↑ Add MS 49000. f. 266.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 868.
  10. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 607 of 24 Oct, 1913.
  11. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  12. ↑ Burt. British Battleships of World War One. p. 69.
  13. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913. W/T Appendix, p. 13.
  14. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 525 of 20 Oct, 1914.
  15. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 9-10.
  16. ↑ The Director Firing Handbook. pp. 107-110.
  17. ↑ Tudor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 90.
  18. ↑ Heath Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 200.
  19. ↑ Gaunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 276.
  20. ↑ Hope Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 44.
  21. ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 382a.
  23. ↑ Parker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 2.
  24. ↑ Drury-Lowe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 214.
  25. ↑ Radcliffe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 342.
  26. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography


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