HMS Cardiff (D58)

In wartime camouflage, 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	Cardiff
Namesake	Cardiff
Ordered	March–April 1915
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Laid down	22 July 1916
Launched	12 April 1917
Completed	25 June 1917
Decommissioned	3 September 1945
Out of service	Sold for scrap, 23 January 1946
Fate	Broken up from 18 March 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	C-class light cruiser
Displacement	4,190 long tons (4,260 t)
Length	450 ft 3 in (137.2 m) (o/a)
Beam	43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Draught	14 ft 8 in (4.5 m) (mean)
Installed power	40,000 shp (30,000 kW) 6 × Yarrow boilers
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Complement	460
Armament	5 × single BL 6 in (152 mm) Mk XII guns 2 × single QF 3 in (76 mm) 20-cwt[Note 1] anti-aircraft 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 Cardiff was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was one of the five ships of the Ceres sub-class and spent most of her career as a flagship. Assigned to the Grand Fleet during the war, the ship participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in late 1917. Cardiff was briefly deployed to the Baltic in late 1918 supporting anti-Bolshevik forces during the British campaign in the Baltic during the Russian Civil War.

She was then transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in early 1919 and spent most of the rest of the year in the Adriatic Sea. In early 1920, the ship was in the Black Sea supporting the Whites against the Bolsheviks. Cardiff spent most of the rest of her time between the world wars overseas or in reserve. The ship played a minor role in World War II as she was initially assigned to the Northern Patrol, but became a training ship in late 1940 and continued in that role for the rest of the war. Cardiff was sold for scrap in early 1946 and subsequently broken up.
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