HMS Caesar (R07)
Service
- as Caesar17 July 1944 — 13 December 1966412 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Caesar
- Pennant / hull number
- R07
- Builder
- John Brown, Clydebank
- Ordered
- 16 February 1942
- Laid down
- 3 April 1943
- Launched
- 12 February 1944
- Commissioned
- 17 July 1944
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 13 December 1966 (1966)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,730 long tons (1,758 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,675 nmi (8,658 km)
- Complement
- 222
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Caesar was a C-class destroyer (1943) destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R07. Her keel was laid at John Brown, Clydebank on 3 April 1943. Launched on 12 February 1944, she entered service on 17 July 1944.
40 ships of the class were built. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,730 long tons. She measured 110.3 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 222.
Her main battery was four 114 mm (4.5 in) guns. 40,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 412 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 13 December 1966.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.5 in DP guns
- 1 × twin 40 mm AA gun
- 2 × twin and 2 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 4 throwers and 2 racks for 108 depth charges
Sister ships
- HMCS Assiniboine (I18)
- HMCS Crescent
- HMCS Fraser (H48)
- HMCS Ottawa (H60)
- HMCS Restigouche (H00)
- HMCS St. Laurent (H83)
- HMS Cairo
- HMS Calcutta (D82)
- HMS Caledon (D53)
- HMS Calypso (D61)
- HMS Cambrian (R85)
- HMS Capetown
- HMS Caprice
- HMS Caradoc (D60)
- HMS Cardiff (D58)
- HMS Carlisle (D67)
- HMS Carron (R30)
- HMS Carysfort (R25)
- HMS Cassandra (R62)
- HMS Cavalier
- HMS Cavendish (R15)
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Chaplet
- HMS Charity (R29)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Caesar (R07) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7386 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons