HMS Comus (1914)

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HMS Comus was a British Caroline class (C class cruiser) light cruiser of the Royal Navy in the First World War.

[edit] History

Already under construction by the start of the war at the Swan Hunter shipyard, Comus was launched in December, 1914 and completed in May the following year. She was a member of the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron along with her sister ship HMS Caroline at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

• Displacement:
  • Nomimal: 3,750 tons
  • Loaded: 4,219 tons
  • Deep: 4,733 tons
• Length: 420 ft (446 ft overall)
• Beam: 41.5 ft
• Draught: 16 ft maximum.
• Armamenet:
  • As built:
  • 2 × 6 inch /45 Mk XII (2 × 1),
  • 8 × 4 inch /45 Mk IV
  • 1 × 6 pounder,
  • 4 × 21 inch torpedo tubes
  • Later:
    • 4 × 6 inch /45 Mk XII
    • 2 × 3 inch anti-aircraft
    • 4 × 21 inch torpedo tubes.
• Propulsion:
  • Equipment: 4 shaft Parsons turbines,
  • Power: 40,000 shp,
  • Speed: 28.5 knots
• Armour:
  • Belt: 3 to 1 in
  • Decks: 1 inch
• Crew: 325

[edit] References

• Jane's Fighting Ships

[edit] See also

C-class cruisers

Caroline group | Caroline | Carysfort | Cleopatra | Comus | Conquest | Cordelia

Calliope group | Calliope | Champion

Cambrian group | Cambrian | Canterbury | Castor | Constance

Centaur group | Centaur | Concord

Caledon group | Caledon | Calypso | Cassandra | Caradoc

Ceres group | Cardiff | Ceres | Coventry | Curacoa | Curlew

Carlisle group | Cairo | Calcutta | Capetown | Carlisle | Colombo

List of cruisers of the Royal Navy