hms hms class light cruiser built royal_navy world war ship sub class ships assigned grand_fleet ship played small role war assigned atlantic mediterranean fleets 1920s sent support british interests turkey crisis ship placed reserve late sold scrap design description class cruisers intended escort fleet defend enemy destroyers attempting close torpedo range ordered naval programme sub class slightly larger improved version preceding sub class ship sub class completed differed sister ships powerful armament ships feet long overall beam feet inches mean draught feet inches displacement long tons normal long tons deep load powered direct drive parsons steam turbines driving propeller shaft produced total indicated horsepower turbines steam generated yarrow boilers gave speed knots mph carried long tons tons fuel oil ship crew officers ranks main armament consisted inch guns mounted gun forward bridge stern gun superfiring gun secondary armament consisted guns pair bridge forecastle deck pairs deck lower amidships anti aircraft defence fitted gun ship mounted submerged torpedo tubes broadside protected waterline belt amidships ranged thickness inches inch deck walls conning tower inches thick wartime modifications pole foremast replaced mast fitted gunnery director january inch guns removed additional inch gun added funnels time gun replaced pair cwt anti aircraft guns ship received pair pounder guns single mounts construction career fourth ship royal_navy laid dockyard dock wales december launched march completed commissioned service month assigned 4th light cruiser squadron grand_fleet served end world war squadron generally tasked screening battleships grand_fleet war ship participate inconclusive action august rest squadron squadron briefly detached grand_fleet march patrol norwegian coast news blockade runner received admiralty beginning refitted sailed devonport visited edward prince wales june ship assigned following month served crew spent days august trying tow schooner run aground near kingston jamaica received brief refit bermuda march april prince wales visited ship september january inspected vice admiral sir bermuda june ship arrived plymouth massachusetts participate celebrations july 2nd august june detached support british interests crisis escorted seaplane carrier turkey september october later guard ship december ship decommissioned june began refit lasted aft control tower platform removed recommissioned serve 2nd mediterranean_fleet participated fleet exercise march transporting troops china decommissioned november assigned recommissioned flagship march decommissioned july listed sale sold scrap july
HMS Cambrian (1916)