C class cruisers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: C class cruiser, HMS Cairo (D87), HMS Calcutta (D82), HMS Caledon (D53), HMS Calliope (1914), HMS Calypso (D61), HMS Cambrian (1916), HMS Canterbury (1915), HMS Capetown (D88), HMS Caradoc (D60), HMS Cardiff (D58), HMS Carlisle (D67), HMS Caroline (1914), HMS Carysfort (1914), HMS Cassandra (1916), HMS Castor (1915), HMS Centaur (1916), HMS Ceres (D59), HMS Champion (1915), HMS Cleopatra (1915), HMS Colombo (D89), HMS Comus (1914), HMS Concord (1916), HMS Conquest (1915), HMS Constance (1915), HMS Cordelia (1914), HMS Coventry (D43), HMS Curacoa (D41), HMS Curlew (D42). Excerpt: The C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in a sequence of seven groups known as the Caroline Class (six ships), Calliope Class (two ships), Cambrian Class (four ships), Centaur Class (two ships), Caledon Class (four ships), Ceres Class (five ships) and Carlisle Class (five ships). They were built for the rough conditions of the North Sea, and proved to be rugged and capable vessels, despite their being somewhat small and cramped. The Caroline class were all ordered in July to August 1913, as the first six of eight "light armoured cruisers" under the 1913 programme. They were launched in 1914 or 1915 and commissioned in 1915. They had an armament of two single 6 in guns aft, eight 4 in guns and two 6 pounder guns. Their anti-aircraft (A/A) weaponry consisted of four 3 pounder guns. Their aft 6 in guns were superfiring and the class had three funnels. During the First World War, the ships of the class underwent a variety of alterations, including the removal of the 4-inch (102 mm) guns in Caroline, Carysfort and Comus, being replaced by two extra 6-inch (152 mm) guns, while Cleopatra, Conquest and Cordelia retained one or two of the 4-inch (102 mm) guns, with two 2 pounder guns being added to some of the ships. The two ships of the Calliope sub-class - HMS Calliope and HMS Champion - were the last pair of the eight "light armoured cruisers" to be ordered in July to August 1914 under the 1913 Programme. They had all geared turbines, the first RN cruisers to be fitted with them. They also had increased belt armour and, Champion had just two screws. They were commissioned in mid to late 1915, as modifications to the Caroline with higher speeds and a more efficient boiler layout and the reduction in the number of funnels to two. The two ships had different machinery types for comparative purposes. Calliope and Champion underwent similar gun armament modifications to the Caroline class. They also had underwater tubes rather t