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Friday, 18 December 2015

British light cruiser Comus (1914) in 1923

Caroline-class.  Launched in 1914, completed in 1915, displacement 3.750 tons, horsepower 40.000 hp, oil-fired turbine direct drive machinery and an armament of 4-6” guns, 2-3” anti aircraft guns, 4-3pd gun, 11-12pd and machine guns and 4 torpedo tubes.(1)

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.

Note
1. Brassey‘s naval and shipping annual 1923. Displacement 3.50 tons and as dimensions 420 x 41 x 13.6 feet. Oil bunker capacity 900 ton. Her crew numbered 287 men.