HMS Caledon (D53)
Service
- as Caledon6 March 1917 — April 19452,066 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Caledon
- Pennant / hull number
- D53
- Builder
- Cammell Laird
- Laid down
- 17 March 1916
- Launched
- 25 November 1916
- Commissioned
- 6 March 1917
- Decommissioned
- April 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 22 January 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 4,238 long tons (4,306 t)
- Length
- 137.16 m (450 ft) OA
- Beam
- 12.8 m (42 ft)
- Draught
- 5.49 m (18 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 438
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Caledon was a C-class cruiser light cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D53. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird on 17 March 1916. She entered service on 6 March 1917, having been launched on 25 November 1916.
Her class ran to 40 ships. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
Displacement was 4,238 long tons standard and 5,240 long tons at full load. She measured 137.2 m (450 ft) long with a beam of 12.8 m (42 ft). Her designed speed was 29 knots, and she carried a complement of 438.
Her main battery was five 152 mm (6 in) guns. Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,066 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in April 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 22 January 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 6 × Yarrow boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 5 × single 6 in guns
- 2 × single 3 in AA guns
- 4 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 1.25 - 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Conning tower: 6 in
October 1944
- Displacement, full load
- 5,240 long tons (5,324 t)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 3 × twin 4 in AA guns
- 2 × twin and 6 × single 40 mm AA guns
- 1 × single 20 mm AA gun
Sister ships
- HMCS Assiniboine (I18)
- HMCS Crescent
- HMCS Fraser (H48)
- HMCS Ottawa (H60)
- HMCS Restigouche (H00)
- HMCS St. Laurent (H83)
- HMS Caesar (R07)
- HMS Cairo
- HMS Calcutta (D82)
- 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 Caledon (D53) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5354 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons