HMS Ceres (D59)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Ceres.

HMS Ceres
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Ceres
BuilderJohn Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down26 April 1916
Launched24 March 1917
Commissioned1 June 1917
Reclassifiedaccommodation/base ship at Portsmouth October 1945
IdentificationPennant number: 66 (Jun 17); 36 (Jan 18);[1] 58 (Apr 18); 59 (Nov 19); I.59 (1936); D.59 (1940) [2]
FateBroken up July 1946
General characteristics
Displacement4,190 tons
Length450 ft (140 m)
Beam43.6 ft (13.3 m)
Draught14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion
  • Two Brown-Curtis geared turbines
  • Six Yarrow boilers
  • Two propellers
  • 40,000 shp
Speed29 knots (54 km/h)
Rangecarried 300 tons (950 tons maximum) of fuel oil
Complement327
Armament
Armour
  • 3 inch side (amidships)
  • 2¼-1½ inch side (bows)
  • 2 inch side (stern)
  • 1 inch upper decks (amidships)
  • 1 inch deck over rudder

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.

  1. ^ Colledge, J J (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 49.
  2. ^ Dodson, Aidan (2024). "The Development of the British Royal Navy's Pennant Numbers Between 1919 and 1940". Warship International. 61 (2): 134–66.