HMS Castor (1915)
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| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Castor |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird |
| Laid down: | 28 October 1914 |
| Launched: | 28 July 1915 |
| Commissioned: | November 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap July 30, 1936 |
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| 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 4 × 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 Castor was one of the Cambrian subclass of the C-class of light cruisers. Her 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. She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead.
Castor normally served as the flagship of the Commodore, and served as such at the Battle of Jutland, where she was the flagship of the eleventh destroyer squadron. Ten of her crew were casualties during the battle.
She was damaged but went on to survive the war. Considered obsolete by the 1930s, she was sold on July 30, 1936 and arrived at Rosyth in August that year 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
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