Career | |
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Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
Name: | HMS Cambrian |
Builder: | Pembroke Dock |
Laid down: | 8 December 1914 |
Launched: | 3 March 1916 |
Commissioned: | May 1916 |
Fate: | Broken up July 1934 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 3,750 long tons (3,810 t) |
Length: | 446 ft (136 m) |
Beam: | 41 ft 6 in (12.65 m) |
Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Installed power: | 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) |
Propulsion: | 2 × Parsons steam turbines 8 × Yarrow boilers 4 × shafts |
Speed: | 28.5 kn (32.8 mph; 52.8 km/h) |
Capacity: | Fuel oil: 420 short tons (380 t) (841 short tons (763 t) maximum) |
Complement: | 323 |
Armament: | 4 × BL 6 in (150 mm) Mk XII guns 1 × QF 4 in (100 mm) Mk V gun 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns 2 × QF 2-pounder guns 4 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes |
Armour: | 3 in (7.6 cm) side (amidships) 1.5–2.5 in (3.8–6.3 cm) side (bows) 2–2.5 in (5.1–6.3 cm) side (stern) 1 in (2.5 cm) upper decks (amidships) 1 in (2.5 cm) deck over rudder |
HMS Cambrian was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the Cambrian group of the C-class of cruisers.
She was laid down on December 1914, launched on 3 March 1916 and commissioned into the navy in May 1916. She was assigned to the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. She had a relatively quiet wartime career, and survived the war. She was considered obsolete before the Second World War, and was sold on 28 July 1934 to Metal Industries, of Rosyth to be broken up for scrap.
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