HMS Carysfort (1914)
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| Career |  |
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| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Carysfort |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dock, and Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Laid down: | 25 February 1914 |
| Launched: | 14 November 1914 |
| Commissioned: | June 1915 |
| Fate: | Scrapped October, 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Nominal:3,750 tons Loaded: 4,219 tons Deep: 4,733 tons |
| Length: | 420 ft (130 m) (446 ft (136 m) overall) |
| Beam: | 41.5 ft (12.6 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft (5 m) maximum. |
| Propulsion: | 4 shaft Parsons turbines Power: 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 28.5 knots (53 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 405 tons (772 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 325 |
| Armament: | As built:
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| Armour: | Belt: 3 to 1 in Decks: 1 inch |
HMS Carysfort was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was part of the Caroline group of the C-class of cruisers.
She was laid down in February 1914, launched 14 November 1914 and commissioned into the navy in June 1915. On the outbreak of war she was assigned as the leader of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet, but in 1916 she was reassigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, Harwich Force, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel, and so did not participate in the Battle of Jutland. In 1917, she was assigned to the 7th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. She survived the war, but was considered obsolete before the outbreak of the Second World War and was arrived at the yards of McLellan in October, 1931 to be broken 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 Caroline class
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