HMS Concord (1916)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Concord |
| Builder: | Vickers Limited |
| Laid down: | February 1, 1915 |
| Launched: | April 1, 1916 |
| Commissioned: | December 1916 |
| Fate: | Broken up for scrap September 1935 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 3,750 tons |
| Length: | 446 ft (136 m) |
| Beam: | 42 ft (13 m) |
| Draught: | 14.6 ft (4.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons turbines Eight Yarrow boilers Four screws 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 28.5 knots |
| Range: | carried 300 tons (824 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 329-336 |
| Armament: | 5 × 6 inch (152 mm) guns 2 × 3 inch (76 mm) guns 2 × 2 pounder (907g) guns 1 × machine gun 2 × 21 inch torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 3 inch side (amidships) 2¼-1¼ inch side (bows) 2-2½ inch side (stern) 1 inch upper decks (amidships) 1 inch deck over rudder |
HMS Concord was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was part of the Centaur group of the C-class of cruisers.
She was built by Vickers Limited and laid down in February 1915, launched on April 1, 1916 and commissioned into the Navy in December 1916. The Ottoman Empire had ordered a pair of scout cruisers in 1914. When the First World War started, construction was halted. A considerable amount of material had already been prepared, and much of this was used in the construction of HMS Concord, and her sister HMS Centaur.
Upon being commissioned into the Navy, Concord was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Flotilla, which operated with the Harwich Force to defend the Eastern approaches to the English Channel. She survived the war, and considered obsolete, was sold for scrapping. She arrived at the yards of Metal Industries, of Rosyth, on September 16, 1935 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 Centaur class
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