HMS Caradoc (D60)
Service
- as Caradoc15 June 1917 — December 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Caradoc
- Pennant / hull number
- D60
- Namesake
- Caradoc
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Laid down
- 21 February 1916
- Launched
- 23 December 1916
- Commissioned
- 15 June 1917
- Decommissioned
- December 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 5 April 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- 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 Caradoc was a C-class cruiser light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D60. The ship was named after Caradoc. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock on 21 February 1916. She entered service on 15 June 1917, having been launched on 23 December 1916.
She was one of 40 ships of her class. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
Displacement was 4,238 long tons. 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 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in December 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 5 April 1946.
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
- 6 × Yarrow boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 5 × single 6 in guns
- 2 × single QF 3 in 20-cwt AA guns
- 4 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 1.25 - 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Conning tower: 3 in
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 Caledon (D53)
- HMS Calypso (D61)
- HMS Cambrian (R85)
- HMS Capetown
- HMS Caprice
- 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 Caradoc (D60) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7498 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons