HMS Canterbury (1915)

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Canterbury sometime between 1916 and 1918
History
United Kingdom
NameCanterbury
BuilderJohn Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Laid down14 October 1914
Launched21 December 1915
CompletedApril or May[1] 1916
CommissionedApril or May[1] 1916
Decommissioned1922
RecommissionedMay 1924
DecommissionedJune 1925 (estimated)
RecommissionedNovember 1926
DecommissionedMarch 1931
RecommissionedAugust 1932?
DecommissionedDecember 1933
FateSold 27 July 1934 for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and typeC-class light cruiser
Displacement3,750 tons
Length446 ft (136 m)
Beam41.5 ft (12.6 m)
Draught15 ft (4.6 m)
Installed power
Propulsion4 screws; 2 steam turbines
Speed28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)
Complement323
Armament
  • 4 ×
    BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) Mk XII guns
  • 1 ×
    QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk V gun
  • 2 ×
    3-inch (76 mm)
    guns
  • 2 ×
    QF 2 pounder guns
  • 6 ×
    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

HMS Canterbury was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. She was part of the Cambrian group of the C class.

Construction

Canterbury was

launched on 21 December 1915, and completed in May 1916.[1] Unlike the rest of the Cambrian subclass, Canterbury was armed with six torpedo tubes
instead of the usual four.

Service history

World War I

3rd Battle Squadron in the Grand Fleet, commanded by Captain Percy M. R. Royds, and participated in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. From 1916 to 1918, she was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, operating as part of Harwich Force in the North Sea to defend the eastern approaches to the Strait of Dover and English Channel. On 5 June 1917, she and the light cruisers HMS Centaur and HMS Conquest sank the German torpedo boat S 20 in the North Sea near the Shouwen Bank off Zeebrugge, Belgium. On St George's day, 23 April 1918, she was present at the great naval raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend.[2]
Later in 1918, she was assigned to operate in the Aegean Sea, where she served out the rest of the war.[3]

Postwar

After the First World War, Canterbury served in the Black Sea in 1919 during the British intervention in the Russian Civil War. She commissioned at Portsmouth in November 1919 for service in the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet. She was attached to the Gunnery School at Portsmouth from 1920 to 1922, then in the Portsmouth Reserve from 1922 to 1924. Following a refit, her 3 funnels were reduced to two. She was recommissioned again at Portsmouth in May 1924 to serve in the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet, before beginning another refit in June 1925.[1]

Canterbury recommissioned out of the

decommissioned in December 1933.[1]

Disposal

Canterbury was sold on 27 July 1934 to Metal Industries of Rosyth, Scotland, for scrapping.

Preservation

The bridge during the raid on Zeebrugge

Canterbury's

ship's badge is on display at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
, England.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Preston, p. 59
  2. ^ "Zeebrugge Raid 1918". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  3. ^ Preston, p. 57, 59, 60

References

External links
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