HMS Caradoc (D60)

Caradoc fitting out at Scotts' Greenock Yard. Submarine 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 a 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:	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:	438
Armament:	5 × single BL 6 in (152 mm) Mk XII guns 2 × single QF 3 in (76 mm) 20-cwtanti-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 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 The ship was withdrawn from the Black Sea in mid-1920 to observe the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22 and the Chanak Crisis of late 1922.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 intercepted 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.