HMS Caradoc (D60)
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 HMS Caradoc fitting out at Scotts, Greenock Yard. Submarine HMS G14 in the foreground |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Caradoc |
| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock |
| Laid down: | February 21, 1916 |
| Launched: | December 23, 1916 |
| Commissioned: | June 15, 1917 |
| Reclassified: | Became a base ship in April 1944 |
| Fate: | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 5 April 1946, scrapped May 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 4,190 tons |
| Length: | 450 ft (140 m) |
| Beam: | 43.6 ft (13.3 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two Brown-Curtis geared turbines Six Yarrow boilers Two screws 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Range: | carried 300 tons (950 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 327 |
| Armament: | 5 × 6 inch (152 mm) guns 2 × 3 inch (76 mm) guns 2 × 2 pounder (907g) guns 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 3 inch side (amidships) 2¼-1½ inch side (bows) 2 inch side (stern) 1 inch upper decks (amidships) 1 inch deck over rudder |
HMS Caradoc was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was part of the Caledon group of the C-class of cruisers.
She was built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock. She was laid down on February 21, 1916, launched on December 23, 1916 and completed and commissioned into the Navy on June 15, 1917. She formed part of the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet in common with the other ships of the Caledon subgroup. With her sister HMS Cassandra she ran aground on Fair Isle on 15 August 1917. Both ships were successfully salvaged.
She was deployed into the Atlantic Ocean on the outbreak of war and assigned to operate off the North American coast. On 23 October 1939 the light cruiser HMS Orion and the Canadian destroyer HMCS Saguenay intercepted the German tanker Emmy Friedrich. When the Caradoc arrived on the scene, the Germans scuttled their ship to prevent her capture. On 11 December 1940 the German blockade breaker Rhein was intercepted by the Dutch sloop HrMs Van Kinsbergen west of the Florida Strait. The Rhein was set on fire by her own crew to prevent her capture, and the wreck was sunk later that day by HMS Caradoc.
Caradoc became a base ship in April 1944, and after the end of the war was considered obsolete. She was sold to be broken up for scrap on 5 April 1946 and subsequently scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales in May 1946.
[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
- HMS Caradoc at Uboat.net
- Ships of the Caledon class
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