HMS Castor (1915)

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Career
Laid down:	October, 1914
Launched:	July, 1915
Completed:	November, 1915
Fate:	Sold for scrap - 1935
General Characteristics
Displacement:	3,750 tons
Length:	446' o.a.
Beam:	41.5'
Draft:	16.25'
Speed:	28.5 kt
Complement:	Officers and Crew - 323
Armament:	Guns: 4 X 6", 2 X 3" aa Torpedo tubes: 4 X 21"
Machinery:	8 Yarrow boilers. Parsons turbines. Oil fuel. Designed performance: 40,000 shp . On trials: 42,337 shp.

HMS Castor was one of a class of four light cruisers (sister ships were HMS Cambrian, HMS Canterbury, and HMS Constance). Design of this class was based on the earlier cruisers HMS Champion and HMS Calliope, which, in turn, were based on the HMS Caroline class, using the same hull as the Carolines but with two funnels and maximum armor thickness of 4" as opposed to 3" in the Carolines. It was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead.

Castor normally served as the flagship of Commodore, and served as such at the Battle of Jutland.