An item reported that at the navy yard at Devonport, England on 30 September the light armoured cruiser Aurora (1) was launched. She was the first of the eight to be built under the 1912-1913 program. It was a new kind of cruisers as Churchill in the House of Commons stated, capable to overhaul and destroy any destroyers at that moment existing. The oil fuelled machinery supplied 30.000 hp allowing a speed of 29 miles. Displacement 3.700 tons and a length of 125 metres. The vertical armour had a thickness of 5,1cm. Main armament consisted of 10,2cm/4” guns. The 8 ships of this design to be built under the 1913-1914 programme were the Calliope, Conquest, Cordelia, Carysfort, Cleopatra, Comus, Caroline and Champion.(1)
Notes
1. Of the Arethusa-class light cruisers, laid down at the Devonport Dockyard on 24 October 1912, launched on 30 September 1913, commissioned in September 1914, sold to Canada on 25 March 1920 and finally sold to be broken up in August 1927.
2. The Caroline-class.
Notes
1. Of the Arethusa-class light cruisers, laid down at the Devonport Dockyard on 24 October 1912, launched on 30 September 1913, commissioned in September 1914, sold to Canada on 25 March 1920 and finally sold to be broken up in August 1927.
2. The Caroline-class.
