HMS Ceres (D59)
HMS Ceres
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| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Ceres |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Laid down: | 26 April 1916 |
| Launched: | 24 March 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 1 June 1917 |
| Reclassified: | accommodation/base ship at Portsmouth October 1945 |
| Fate: | Broken up July 1946 |
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| Tons burthen: | 4,190 tons |
| Length: | 450 ft (140 m) |
| Beam: | 43.6 ft (13.3 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 300 tons (950 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 327 |
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HMS Ceres was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the Ceres group of the C-class of cruisers.
The Ceres was constructed at Clydebank by John Brown & Company. She was laid down on 26 April 1916, launched on 24 March 1917 by Isabel Law, daughter of the wartime Chancellor of the Exchequer Andrew Bonar Law, and commissioned into the navy on 1 June 1917.
In July 1917 Ceres joined the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron as part of the Grand Fleet. net. She was transferred to the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron in 1919 which was assigned to operate in the Mediterranean. During 1920 was operating in the Black Sea in support of operations against Communist forces. On 30th of March 1923 whilst in port at Constantinople, USS Fox collided with her stern causing damage to both ships. In 1927 Ceres returned to the UK for deployment with the Home Fleet. During 1929-1931 she was refitted and placed in reserve, but reactivated in 1932 to join the Mediterranean Fleet. In November Ceres was again reduced to the reserve.
On the outbreak of war in 1939 Ceres was recommissioned from the Reserve Fleet and placed on the Northern Patrol in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland. In January 1940, Ceres underwent a refit at the yards of Harland & Wolff in Belfast, Northern Ireland in preparation for her reassignment to the Mediterranean. On February 15th, she was reassigned from HMNB Devonport to her new base at Malta, travelling via Gibraltar. During March she led contraband patrols in the Ionian Sea, and off the coast of Greece, checking ships transporting cargoes to the axis countries, as well as escorting allied convoys.
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