HMS Canterbury (1915)

HMS Canterbury sometime between 1916 and 1918.
History
Class and type:	C-class light cruiser
Name:	HMS Canterbury
Builder:	John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Laid down:	14 October 1914
Launched:	21 December 1915
Completed:	April or May 1916
Commissioned:	April or May 1916
Decommissioned:	1922
Recommissioned:	May 1924
Decommissioned:	June 1925?
Recommissioned:	November 1926
Decommissioned:	March 1931
Recommissioned:	August 1932?
Decommissioned:	December 1933
Fate:	Sold 27 July 1934 for scrapping
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	3,750 tons
Length:	446 ft (136 m)
Beam:	41.5 ft (12.6 m)
Draught:	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion:	Two Parsons turbines Eight Yarrow boilers Four propellers 40,000 shp
Speed:	28.5 knots (53 km/h)
Range:	carried 420 tons (841 tons maximum) of fuel oil
Complement:	323
Armament:	4 × BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) Mk XII guns 1 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk V gun 2 × 3-inch (76 mm) guns 2 × QF 2 pounder guns 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	3 inch side (amidships) 2¼-1½ inch side (bows) 2½ - 2 inch side (stern) 1 inch upper decks (amidships) 1 inch deck over rudder

HMS Canterbury was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. She was part of the Cambrian group of the C class.

Canterbury was laid down on 28 October 1914, launched on 21 December 1915, and completed in May 1916. Unlike the rest of the Cambrian subclass, Canterbury was armed with six torpedo tubes instead of the usual four.

Commissioned into the Royal Navy in April or May (sources differ) 1916, Canterbury was attached to the 3rd Battle Squadron in the Grand Fleet, commanded by Captain Percy M. R. Royds, and participated in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May-1 June 1916. From 1916 to 1918, she was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, operating as part of Harwich Force in the North Sea to defend the eastern approaches to the Strait of Dover and English Channel. On 5 June 1917, she and the light cruisers HMS Centaur and HMS Conquest sank the German torpedo boat S 20 in the North Sea near the Shouwen Bank off Zeebrugge, Belgium. In 1918, she was assigned to operate in the Aegean Sea, where she served out the rest of the war.