HMS Inconstant (1914)

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Career Royal Navy Ensign
Class and type: Arethusa class light cruiser
Name: HMS Inconstant
Builder: William Beardmore and Company
Laid down: 3 April 1913
Launched: 6 July 1914
Commissioned: January 1915
Fate: Sold for scrapping 9 June 1922
General characteristics
Displacement: 3,500 tons
Length: 436 ft (133 m) Overall
Beam: 39 ft (12 m)
Draught: 13.5 ft (4.1 m)
Propulsion: Parsons turbines
Eight Yarrow boilers
40,000 hp
Speed: 28.5 knots (53 km/h)
Range: carried 482 tons (810 tons maximum) of fuel oil
Complement: 318
Armament: 3 × 6 inch guns
4 × 4 inch guns
2 × 3 inch guns
8 × 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
6 inch conning tower

HMS Inconstant was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on July 6, 1914 at William Beardmore and Company shipyard.

On being commissioned, she was assigned to the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, and on 31 May to 1 June 1916 Inconstant took part in the Battle of Jutland. She survived the battle and the First World War, and was sold for scrapping on 9 June 1922 to Cashmore, of Newport.

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