HMS Centaur (1916)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Centaur.
HMS Centaur was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. She was the name ship of the Centaur group of the C-class of cruisers.
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Centaur sometime between 1916 and 1919 | |
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Name | Centaur |
Namesake | centaur |
Builder | Vickers Limited |
Laid down | 24 January 1915 |
Launched | 6 January 1916 |
Completed | August 1916 |
Commissioned | August 1916 |
Decommissioned | October 1923 |
Recommissioned | 8 April 1925 |
Decommissioned | March 1932 |
Fate | Sold February 1934 for scrapping |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 3,750 tons |
Length | 446 ft (136 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (13 m) |
Draught | 14.6 ft (4.5 m) |
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Speed | 28.5 knots |
Range | carried 300 tons (824 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
Complement | 329-336 |
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