HMS Canterbury (1915)

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Career
Class and type:	C-class light cruiser
Name:	HMS Canterbury
Builder:	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down:	October 14, 1914
Launched:	December 21, 1915
Commissioned:	April 1916
Fate:	Sold for breaking up 27 July 1934
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	3,750 tons
Length:	446 ft (136 m)
Beam:	41.5 ft (12.6 m)
Draught:	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion:	Two Parsons turbines Eight Yarrow boilers Four screws 40,000 shp
Speed:	28.5 knots (53 km/h)
Range:	carried 420 tons (841 tons maximum) of fuel oil
Complement:	323
Armament:	4 × 6 inch guns 1 × 4 inch gun 2 × 3 inch guns 2 × 2 pounder (907g) guns 6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	3 inch side (amidships) 2¼-1½ inch side (bows) 2½ - 2 inch side (stern) 1 inch upper decks (amidships) 1 inch deck over rudder

HMS Canterbury was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was part of the Cambrian group of the C-class of cruisers. Unlike the rest of the subclass, Canterbury was armed with six torpedo tubes instead of the usual four.

She was laid down in October 1914, launched on December 21, 1915 and commissioned into the navy in April 1916. She was then attached to the Grand Fleet, commanded by Captain Percy M. R. Royds. Whilst serving with the Fleet she participated in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May to 1 June. She survived the battle and was then assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, operating with the Harwich Force to defend the eastern approaches to the English Channel. On 5 June 1917, whilst serving with the Harwich force she sank the German torpedo boat S 20 off the Belgian coast. In 1918 she was assigned to operate in the Aegean, where she saw out the rest of the war without incident.

She was considered obsolete by 1934, and was sold on 27 July, 1934 to Metal Industries, of Rosyth for breaking up.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 
• Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
• Ships of the Cambrian class

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