HMS Centaur (1916)

	Centaur sometime between 1916 and 1919
History
United Kingdom
Name	Centaur
Namesake	centaur
Builder	Vickers Limited
Laid down	24 January 1915
Launched	6 January 1916
Completed	August 1916
Commissioned	August 1916
Decommissioned	October 1923
Recommissioned	8 April 1925
Decommissioned	March 1932
Fate	Sold February 1934 for scrapping
General characteristics
Displacement	3,750 tons
Length	446 ft (136 m)
Beam	42 ft (13 m)
Draught	14.6 ft (4.5 m)
Propulsion	Parsons turbines; Eight Yarrow boilers; Four propellers; 40,000 shp;
Speed	28.5 knots
Range	carried 300 tons (824 tons maximum) of fuel oil
Complement	329-336
Armament	5 × 6-inch (152 mm) (152 mm) guns; 2 × 3-inch (76 mm) (76 mm) guns; 2 × 2-pounder (907g) guns; 1 × machine gun; 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	3 inch side (amidships); 2¼-1¼ inch side (bows); 2-2½ inch side (stern); 1 inch upper decks (amidships); 1 inch deck over rudder;

HMS Centaur was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. She was the name ship of the Centaur group of the C-class of cruisers.

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