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HMS Castor (1915)
Royal Navy C-class light cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Castor.
HMS Castor was one of the Cambrian subclass of the C class of light cruisers. She saw service during the First World War and the Russian Civil War.
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Name | Castor |
Builder | Cammell Laird |
Laid down | 28 October 1914 |
Launched | 28 July 1915 |
Completed | November 1915 |
Commissioned | November 1915 |
Decommissioned | May 1935 |
Fate | Sold 30 July 1936 for scrapping |
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Class and type | C-class light cruiser |
Displacement | 3,750 long tons (3,810 t) |
Length | 446 ft (135.9 m) |
Beam | 41.5 ft (12.6 m) |
Draught | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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Propulsion | 4 propellers; 2 steam turbines |
Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph) |
Complement | 323 |
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