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Cruiser

Completed 18.03.1929
Displacement 9,850 tons
Machinery 80,000 SHP
Armament 8 - 8 inch, 8 - 4 inch HA, 4 - 3 pdr

 

Officers    
Commanding Officer
04.12.1926 - (07.1927)
Eng.Cdr. R.H. Withey, RN [while under construction]
 
19.03.1929 - (02.1931)
Capt. H.C. Rawlings, RN
 
17.08.1931 - 03.02.1933
Capt. D.B. Le Mottee, RN
 
03.02.1933 - 02.02.1934
Capt. L.F. Potter, RN
 
02.02.1934 - (07.1935)
Capt. H. Fitzherbert, RN
 
21.12.1935 - (02.1936)
Capt. G.P. Thomson, RN
 
11.1936 - (04.1939)
Capt. G.C. Muirhead-Gould, RN
 
10.05.1939 - (04.1940)
Capt. J.M. Mansfield, RN
 
23.10.1940 - (08.1942)
Capt. R.D. Oliver, RN
 
01.11.1942 - (06.1943)
Capt. D. Young-Jamieson, RN
 
13.07.1943 - (08.1943)
Cdr. W.W. Sitwell, RN
 
13.09.1943 - (12.1943)
Cdr. J.C. Richards, RN
 
01.1944 - (06.1944)
Capt. D.K. Bain, RN
 
11.01.1945 - (07.1945)
Capt. G.H.B. Langley, RN
 
01.1946 - (04.1946)
Capt. J.R.S. Brown, RN
 
1948 - 03.05.1948
Capt. J.C.C. Henley, RN
 
03.05.1948 - 10.12.1949
Capt. St.J. Cronyn, RN
 
10.12.1949 - (05.1950)
Capt. G.H. Stokes, RN
 
(1951) - (1951)
Capt. R.G. Onslow, RN
 
08.04.1952 - (05.)1953
Capt. W.G. Crawford, RN


Next Devonshire:

08.01.1962-(02.1963) Capt. P.N. Howes, RN
1964-1966 Capt. D. Williams, RN
1966-1967 Capt. G.C. Leslie, RN
20.06.1967-(02.1969) Capt. R.K.M. Emden, RN
01.02.1971-1972/73 Capt. S.R. Sandford, RN
1972/73-1974 Capt. P.W. Buchanan, RN
1974?-1977 Capt. A.L.L. Skinner, RN