HMS Calliope (1914)
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| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Calliope |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 1 January 1914 |
| Launched: | 17 December 1914 |
| Commissioned: | June 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap August 28, 1931 |
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| Tons burthen: | 3,750 tons (3,810 t) |
| 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 Four screws 37,500 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 2 × 3 inch guns 1 × machine gun 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (another 4 added in 1919) |
| 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 |
HMS Calliope was a British C class light cruiser of the Royal Navy under construction at the outbreak of World War I.
Both Calliope and her sister ship Champion were based on HMS Caroline. They were effectively test ships for the use of geared turbines which resulted in the one less funnel. They also received slightly thicker armour. They led into the first of the Cambrian subclass.
Calliope was built at HM Dockyard, Chatham, Kent. She was laid down in January 1914, launched on 17 December 1914, and completed in June 1915. She was badly damaged by a fuel oil fire while at sea on 19 March 1916, but was repaired in time to be one of the five ships in the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. On 1 September 1917 Calliope was involved in the sinking of four German trawlers. She survived the war and was sold for scrapping on August 28, 1931 to Ward, of Inverkeithing.
[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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