HMS Carysfort (1914)

Carysfort at anchor, 1920s
History
United Kingdom
Name	Carysfort
Namesake	Earl of Carysfort
Ordered	July–August 1913
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard, Pembroke Dock, Wales, or Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Tyneside, England
Laid down	25 February 1914
Launched	14 November 1914
Completed	June 1915
Decommissioned	September 1923
Recommissioned	September 1924
Decommissioned	April 1931
Fate	Sold for scrap, August 1931
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	C-class light cruiser
Displacement	4,219 long tons (4,287 t)
Length	446 ft (135.9 m) (o/a)
Beam	41 ft 6 in (12.6 m)
Draught	16 ft (4.9 m) (mean)
Installed power	8 × Yarrow boilers 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × steam turbines
Speed	28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)
Range	3,680 nmi (6,820 km; 4,230 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	301
Armament	2 × single BL 6 in (152 mm) guns 8 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) guns 1 × single QF 6-pdr (57 mm (2.2 in)) AA gun 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Waterline belt: 1–3 in (25–76 mm) Deck: 1 in (25 mm) Conning tower: 6 in

HMS Carysfort was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was one of six ships of the Caroline sub-class and was completed in 1915. Assigned to the Grand Fleet, the Harwich Force, and the Dover Patrol during the war, the ship served as a flagship for part of the war. Her only known combat was a short battle against German torpedo boats in the English Channel, although she was very active patrolling the North Sea and unsuccessfully searching for German ships. Carysfort was assigned to the Home and Atlantic Fleets after the war and was sent to the Mediterranean Fleet during the Chanak Crisis of 1922–23 to support British interests in Turkey. In 1922, she patrolled off the Irish coast during the Irish Civil War. The ship was placed in reserve after returning home in 1923 and, aside from ferrying troops overseas, remained in reserve until she was sold for scrap in 1931.