HMS Ceres (D59)
Royal Navy C-class light cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Ceres.
HMS Ceres was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the Ceres group of the C-class of cruisers.
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Name | HMS Ceres |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Laid down | 26 April 1916 |
Launched | 24 March 1917 |
Commissioned | 1 June 1917 |
Reclassified | accommodation/base ship at Portsmouth October 1945 |
Fate | Broken up July 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 4,190 tons |
Length | 450 ft (140 m) |
Beam | 43.6 ft (13.3 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
Range | carried 300 tons (950 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
Complement | 327 |
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