HMS Comus (1914)

History

United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Comus
Namesake:	Comus
Builder:	Swan Hunter, Wallsend
Laid down:	13 November 1913
Launched:	16 December 1914
Completed:	May 1915
Commissioned:	15 May 1915
Decommissioned:	December 1924
Recommissioned:	September 1925
Decommissioned:	December 1933
Fate:	Sold 28 July 1934 for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type:	C-class light cruiser
Displacement:	Nominal:3,750 tons Loaded: 4,219 tons Deep: 4,733 tons
Length:	420 ft (130 m) (446 ft (136 m) overall)
Beam:	41.5 ft (12.6 m)
Draught:	16 ft (5 m) maximum.
Propulsion:	4 shaft Parsons turbines Power: 40,000 shp
Speed:	28.5 knots (53 km/h)
Range:	carried 405 tons (772 tons maximum) of fuel oil
Complement:	325
Armament:	As built: 2 × BL 6 in (152 mm) /45 Mk XII guns (2 × 1) 8 × QF 4 in (102 mm) /45 Mk V guns 1 × 6 pounder 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes Later: 4 × 6 in (152 mm) /45 Mk XII 2 × 3 in (76 mm) anti-aircraft 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes.
Armour:	Belt: 3–1 inch (76–25 mm) Decks: 1 inch (25 mm)

The fourth HMS Comus was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service in World War I. She was part of the Caroline group of the C class.

Built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend, Comus was laid down on 13 November 1913 and launched on 16 December 1914.

Commissioned into service in the Royal Navy on 15 May 1915, Comus was assigned to the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Grand Fleet. She and the destroyer HMS Munster sank the Imperial German Navy merchant raider Greif in the North Sea on 29 February 1916, and she fought in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May-1 June 1916 under the command of Captain Alan Geoffrey Hotham.

After the conclusion of World War I, Comus served in the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron from March to April 1919, then underwent a refit at Rosyth, Scotland. She recommissioned in October 1919 for another tour of duty with the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron, and served on the East Indies Station until June 1923, temporarily serving as the station's flagship in 1921. While still assigned to the East Indies Station in November 1922, she began a refit at Portsmouth that lasted until July 1923. She then was attached to the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean Fleet until December 1924, when she entered the Nore Reserve.

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