HMS Caradoc (D60)

Caradoc fitting out at Scotts' Greenock Yard. Submarine HMS G14 is in the foreground
History
United Kingdom
Name	Caradoc
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
Reclassified	Became an accommodation ship, April 1944
Fate	Sold for scrap, 5 April 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	C-class light cruiser
Displacement	4,238 long tons (4,306 t)
Length	425 ft (129.5 m) (p/p) 450 ft (137.2 m) (o/a)
Beam	42 ft 3 in (12.9 m)
Draught	18 ft 9 in (5.72 m) (mean, deep load)
Installed power	6 × Yarrow boilers 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Complement	438
Armament	5 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 2 × single QF 3 in (76 mm) 20-cwt[Note 1] AA guns 4 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Waterline belt: 1.25–3 in (32–76 mm) Deck: 1 in (25 mm) Conning tower: 3 in

HMS Caradoc was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was one of the four ships of the Caledon sub-class. Assigned to the Grand Fleet during the war, the ship participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in late 1917. Caradoc was briefly deployed to the Baltic in late 1918 supporting anti-Bolshevik forces during the British campaign in the Baltic and then was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in early 1919 and spent the next year and a half doing the same thing in the Black Sea during the Russian Civil War. The ship was withdrawn from the Black Sea in mid-1920 to observe the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22 and the Chanak Crisis of late 1922. Caradoc spent most of the rest of her time between the World Wars overseas or in reserve with deployments to the Far East and the North America and West Indies Station.

Recommissioned before the start of World War II in September 1939, she returned to the North American Station where she helped to intercept two German blockade-runners. The ship was transferred to the Eastern Fleet in early 1942, but saw no action before she was converted into a training ship in mid-1943 in South Africa. Caradoc was sent to Ceylon where she became an accommodation ship in 1944. She briefly became the fleet flagship in August 1945 before returning home later in the year. The ship was placed in reserve at the end of the year and sold for scrap in early 1946.
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