HMS Canterbury (1915)

	Canterbury sometime between 1916 and 1918
History
United Kingdom
Name	Canterbury
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Laid down	14 October 1914
Launched	21 December 1915
Completed	April or May 1916
Commissioned	April or May 1916
Decommissioned	1922
Recommissioned	May 1924
Decommissioned	June 1925 (estimated)
Recommissioned	November 1926
Decommissioned	March 1931
Recommissioned	August 1932?
Decommissioned	December 1933
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)
Installed power	Eight Yarrow boilers; 40,000 shp (30,000 kW);
Propulsion	4 screws; 2 steam turbines
Speed	28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)
Complement	323
Armament	4 × BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) Mk XII guns; 1 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk V gun; 2 × 3-inch (76 mm) guns; 2 × QF 2 pounder guns; 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	3 inch side (amidships); 2¼-1½ inch side (bows); 2½ - 2 inch side (stern); 1 inch upper decks (amidships); 1 inch deck over rudder;

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.

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