Fortunately, they were no victims, all were rescued by th second Canadian destroyer.After completion at Pembroke, she served with the 8th LCS in the west indies, and so far she is the only Royal Navy cruiser to ever bear this name.

They also had either Parsons turbines or Brown-Curtis ones (for Fairfield ships), rated for the same 40,000 hp and 29 knots as designed and carried 935 tons of oil. She served as a liaison ship with the US Navy, Cardiff was mostly active during WW1, her WW2 career was mostly blend.

in 1928 and returned in Portsmouth for decomm.

Assigned to the Mediterranean fleet she was torpedoed and damaged by the Italian submarine However she would met her fate later, on 18 May 1941. Also a fourth 6-in gun was added on the frecastle abeft the funnels while the remainder of the 4-in were removed.Also an extra pair of 21-in TTs was installed.

They were laid down at Vickers in January and February 1915 and launched January and March 1916.Being the first light cruisers with an ‘all-big guns armament’ they were dubbed at the time ‘Tyrwhitt’s dreadnoughts’ when joining the Harwich Force. On the 25 June HMS Calcutta collided with Fraser off the Gironde estuary, cutting the destroyer in two but the British cruiser was undamaged, saying a lot about her reinforced bow.

Searchlights removed from foremast and forward platform for stability, and repositioned on after control platform.
She saw action in the Baltic with the 2nd LCS, then 1st LCS, Atlantic Fleet in 1921 then Nore reserve. The first only slightly differed from the Arethusa, but following cruisers of the Calliope class really defined the design for wartime, with two distinctive angled funnels whereas the previous ships, Caroline and Arethusa were “three-stackers”. She remained on the North America and West Indies Station until 1926, sustaining structural damage after being dashed against a jetty in Bermuda by a hurricane in October.

She served with this unit until the armistice. These ships saw the older triple expansion engines replaced by turbines and coal power replaced by a mix of coal and oil. Captains, As we all know, the British cruisers are here, and, in order for you to fully enjoy sailing these beauties to victory, we have prepared a special guide! She served without notable event and and was sold for BU 22 January 1948.http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_caroline_class_cruisers.html Identical armament-wise, they were completely revised and modernized during the second world war. From there, she multiplied escort missions.By April 1940, she was deployed in Norway in 22–23 April and along with the cruiser Birmingham and destroyer Maori, sloop Auckland and French destroyers Bison and Foudroyant, she escorted the French troopship In May 1940, HMS Calcutta took part in Operation Dynamo, evacuating 656 troops on the night of 27/28 May 1940 off La Panne and 1,200 troops the next night, and off Dunkirk 31 May/1 June, damaged by near-misses. In March 1919 she joined the China station, up to 1923. Nore reserve, SNOs ship in Feb.1919, 1st submarine flotilla Atlantic fleet, until Jan. 1927.

But these cruisers were near-clones of the Arethusa, a gradual improvement.Actually this class was just an extra six ships of the admiralty ‘Light armoured cruiser’ 1913 program, with slight differences for two ships.


In 1939 HMS Coventry served with the Home Fleet between 1939, damaged on 1 January 1940 in a German air attack (Shetland Islands). The Curacoa followed the same reconversion in 1940, but with four twin turrets of the same model as the Dido class. HMS Canterbury was from John Brown, laid down on 14.10.1914, launchd 21.12.1915 and also completed in May 1916. Light cruisers Third class cruisers Scout cruisers Introduction. Went back to the tried and true German and the IJN cruisers which offer so much more (effective weaponry, torp range, and purchase costs) at equivalent tiers.