&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Caroline.jpg) Caroline in 1917
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| History | |
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| Name | Caroline |
| Builder | Cammell Laird |
| Laid down | 28 January 1914 |
| Launched | 29 September 1914 |
| Completed | December 1914 |
| Commissioned | 4 December 1914 |
| Decommissioned | February 1922 |
| Recommissioned | February 1924 |
| Decommissioned | 31 March 2011 |
| Identification | Pennant number: 87 (1914); 30 (Jan 18);[1] 44 (Apr 18); 69 (Nov 19)[2] |
| Motto | Tenax Propositi ("Tenacious of Purpose") |
| Honours and awards | Battle honour for Jutland 1916 |
| Status | Museum ship in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | C-class light cruiser |
| Displacement | 4,219 long tons (4,287 t) |
| Length | 446 ft 9 in (136.2 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 41 ft 6 in (12.6 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft (4.9 m) (mean) |
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| Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × steam turbines |
| Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph) |
| Complement | 301 |
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HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that was the lead ship of her sub-class. Completed in 1914, she saw combat service during the First World War and served as an administrative centre in the Second World War. The ship served as a static headquarters and training ship for the Royal Naval Reserve, based in Alexandra Dock, Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the later stages of her career. At the time of her decommissioning in 2011 she was the second-oldest ship in Royal Navy service, after the ship-of-the-line HMS Victory. Caroline was converted into a museum ship after she was decommissioned. From October 2016 she underwent inspection and repairs to her hull at Harland and Wolff and opened to the public on 1 July 2017 at Alexandra Dock in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast.[3]
Caroline was the last remaining British First World War light cruiser in service, and she is the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland still afloat. She is also one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War, along with the 1915 monitor HMS M33 (in Portsmouth dockyard), and the Flower-class sloop HMS President, (formerly HMS Saxifrage) usually moored on the Thames at Blackfriars but as from February 2016, in Number 3 Basin, Chatham.
- ^ Colledge, Warlow, & Bush, p. 47
- ^ Dodson, pp. 134–166
- ^ "A Mooring system like no other". NMRN blog. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022.