HMS Calliope (1914)

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Calliope
NamesakeCalliope
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid down1 January 1914
Launched17 December 1914
CommissionedJune 1915
IdentificationPennant number: 76 (1914); 23 (Jan 18);[1] 78 (Apr 18); 80 (Nov 19)[2]
Honours and
awards
Jutland 1916
FateSold for scrap 28 August 1931
General characteristics
Class and typeC-class light cruiser
Displacement3,750 tons (3,810 t)
Length446 ft (136 m)
Beam41.5 ft (12.6 m)
Draught14.5 ft (4.4 m)
Propulsion
  • Two Parsons turbines
  • Eight Yarrow boilers
  • Four propellers
  • 37,500 shp
Speed28.5 knots (53 km/h)
Rangecarried 405 tons (772 tons maximum) of fuel oil
Complement324
Armament
Armour
  • 4 inches (100 mm) side (amidships)
  • 2.25–1.5 inches (57–38 mm) side (bows)
  • 2.5–2 inches (64–51 mm) side (stern)
  • 1 inch (25 mm) upper decks (amidships)
  • 1 inch (25 mm) deck over rudder

HMS Calliope was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy under construction at the outbreak of the First World War. Both Calliope and her sister ship Champion were based on the earlier cruiser Caroline. They were effectively test ships for the use of geared turbines which resulted in the one less funnel. They also received slightly thicker armour. They led into the first of the Cambrian subclass.

Design

Eight light cruisers were ordered for the Royal Navy in the 1913 budget. The six ships of the Caroline class used conventional direct drive turbine engines but Calliope and Caroline each had a different engine design using geared reduction to match optimum working speeds of turbines and propellers. This followed experimental designs ordered in 1911 using geared high pressure turbines for the destroyers Badger and Beaver and in 1912 using gearing for both high pressure and low pressure turbines in destroyers Leonidas and Lucifer.[3]

Calliope was built at HM Dockyard, Chatham. She was laid down in January 1914, launched on 17 December 1914, and completed in June 1915.[4]

Calliope had four shafts as used in the Caroline design but unlike the two used in Champion. Gearing increased the efficiency of power transmission to the water so allowed smaller boilers and turbines to be used than otherwise would be the case. Nominal design power for the same target speed was therefore reduced from 40,000 shp in the Caroline class to 37,500 shp. Propeller speed was 480 rpm.[3]

Service history

World War I

Calliope in WW1

Commissioned in June 1915, Calliope was assigned to the Grand Fleet for service as flagship of the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron.[5] She was badly damaged by a fuel oil fire in her boiler room while at sea on 19 March 1916, but was repaired in time to be one of the five ships in the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May-1 June 1916. Under the command of Commodore Charles E. Le Mesurier, HMS Calliope received a number of hits just before nightfall on 31 May (notably by the German battleships Kaiser and Markgraf), and 10 of her crew were killed.[6]

In September 1917, Calliope helped to sink four German trawler minesweepers in the North Sea off the coast of Jutland.[5]

Post-war

In March 1919, Calliope was commissioned for service with the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron on the North America and West Indies Station, based at the Royal Naval Dockyard in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, with which she suffered another engine room fire in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores in October 1919.[7] She returned to Devonport for repairs, which were carried out between November 1919 and March 1920, and then recommissioned for continued service on the North America and West Indies Station. She returned to the United Kingdom in December 1920 for a refit and paid off at the Nore in January 1921. She was in the Nore Reserve from October 1921 to May 1924, when she was commissioned for service with the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet.[5]

Between 1925 and 1926, Calliope was used to transport troops before paying off into dockyard control at the Nore in April 1926 for a refit. Between 1927 and 1928 she was used for trooping runs again, becoming the Senior Naval Officer's ship in the Nore Reserve in December 1927. In September 1928 received her last commission, this time with the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean Fleet, which ended in January 1930 when she paid off into reserve at Portsmouth Dockyard.

Disposal

Calliope was transferred to dockyard control in January 1931. She was sold for scrap on 28 August 1931 to Thos. W. Ward of Inverkeithing, Scotland.[5][8]

Honours and awards

Calliope received one battle honour, for the Battle of Jutland in 1916.[5]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Colledge, J J (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 47.
  2. ^ Dodson, Aidan (2024). "The Development of the British Royal Navy's Pennant Numbers Between 1919 and 1940". Warship International. 61 (2): 134–66.
  3. ^ a b Brown, pp. 24–25
  4. ^ J Rickard (25 October 2007). "HMS Calliope". History of War.org. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d e naval-history.net HMS CALLIOPE
  6. ^ northeast medals - Jutland losses
  7. ^ "HMS Calliope, Light Cruiser". Naval-History.net. Archived from the original on 17 June 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
  8. ^ "Calliope Class Light Cruisers". World War 1 Naval Combat. Retrieved 5 June 2012.

Sources

  • Brown, David K. (1999). The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906–1922. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-315-X.
  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th revised and updated ed.). Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-9327-0.
  • Friedman, Norman (2010). British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59114-078-8.
  • Preston, Antony (1985). "Great Britain and Empire Forces". In Gray, Randal (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 1–104. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.

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