&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Canterbury_(1915).jpg) Canterbury sometime between 1916 and 1918
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Canterbury |
| Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland |
| Laid down | 14 October 1914 |
| Launched | 21 December 1915 |
| Completed | April or May[1] 1916 |
| Commissioned | April or May[1] 1916 |
| Decommissioned | 1922 |
| Recommissioned | May 1924 |
| Decommissioned | June 1925 (estimated) |
| Recommissioned | November 1926 |
| Decommissioned | March 1931 |
| Recommissioned | August 1932? |
| Decommissioned | December 1933 |
| Identification | Pennant number: 0A (1914); 27 (Jan 18);[2] 59 (Apr 18); P01 (Nov 19).[3] |
| Fate | Sold 27 July 1934 for scrapping |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | C-class light cruiser |
| Displacement | 3,750 tons |
| Length | 446 ft (136 m) |
| Beam | 41.5 ft (12.6 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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| Propulsion | 4 screws; 2 steam turbines |
| Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph) |
| Complement | 323 |
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HMS Canterbury was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. She was part of the Cambrian group of the C class.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
conwayswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Colledge, J J (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 48.
- ^ Dodson, Aidan (2024). "The Development of the British Royal Navy's Pennant Numbers Between 1919 and 1940". Warship International. 61 (2): 134–66.