HMS Champion (1915)
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| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Champion |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Laid down: | 9 March 1914 |
| Launched: | 29 May 1915 |
| Commissioned: | 20 December 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap July 28, 1934 |
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| Tons burthen: | 3,750 tons |
| Length: | 446 ft (136 m) |
| Beam: | 41.5 ft (12.6 m) |
| Draught: | 14.5 ft (4.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two Parsons turbines Eight Yarrow boilers Two screws 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 28.5 knots (53 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 405 tons (772 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 324 |
| Armament: | 4 × 6 inch guns 1 × 4 inch gun 1 × 3 pdr gun 6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 4 inch side (amidships) 2¼-1½ inch side (bows) 2½ - 2 inch side (stern) 1 inch upper decks (amidships) 1 inch deck over rudder |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Champion.
HMS Champion was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was part of the Calliope group of the C-class of cruisers.
She was laid down on 9 March 1914, launched 29 May 1915 and commissioned into the navy on 20 December 1915. She was assigned to the Grand Fleet upon completion, as the Leader of the 13 Destroyer Flotilla. With a number of her sisters, Champion took part in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May to 1 June 1916. She survived the battle and the war, but was considered obsolete before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold for scrap on July 28, 1934 to Metal Industries, of Rosyth.
[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 Calliope class
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