HMS Castor (1915)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | October, 1914 |
| Launched: | July, 1915 |
| Completed: | November, 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap - 1935 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,750 tons |
| Length: | 446' o.a. |
| Beam: | 41.5' |
| Draft: | 16.25' |
| Speed: | 28.5 kt |
| Complement: | Officers and Crew - 323 |
| Armament: | Guns: 4 X 6", 2 X 3" aa Torpedo tubes: 4 X 21" |
| Machinery: | 8 Yarrow boilers. Parsons turbines. Oil fuel. Designed performance: 40,000 shp . On trials: 42,337 shp. |
HMS Castor was one of a class of four light cruisers (sister ships were HMS Cambrian, HMS Canterbury, and HMS Constance). Design of this class was based on the earlier cruisers HMS Champion and HMS Calliope, which, in turn, were based on the HMS Caroline class, using the same hull as the Carolines but with two funnels and maximum armor thickness of 4" as opposed to 3" in the Carolines. It was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead.
Castor normally served as the flagship of Commodore, and served as such at the Battle of Jutland.
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| C-class cruisers |
| Caroline group | Caroline | Carysfort | Cleopatra | Comus | Conquest | Cordelia |
| Calliope group | Calliope | Champion |
| Cambrian group | Cambrian | Canterbury | Castor | Constance |
| Centaur group | Centaur | Concord |
| Caledon group | Caledon | Calypso | Cassandra | Caradoc |
| Ceres group | Cardiff | Ceres | Coventry | Curacoa | Curlew |
| Carlisle group | Cairo | Calcutta | Capetown | Carlisle | Colombo |
List of cruisers of the Royal Navy |
