HMS Cleopatra (1915)

	Cleopatra sometime between 1915 and 1919
History
United Kingdom
Name	Cleopatra
Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Laid down	26 February 1914
Launched	14 January 1915
Completed	June 1915
Commissioned	June 1915
Decommissioned	1921
Recommissioned	1923
Decommissioned	1924
Recommissioned	January 1925
Decommissioned	December 1926
Recommissioned	December 1927
Decommissioned	March 1931
Fate	Sold for scrap, 26 June 1931
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	C-class light cruiser
Displacement	4,219 long tons (4,287 t)
Length	446 ft (135.9 m) (o/a)
Beam	41 ft 6 in (12.6 m)
Draught	16 ft (4.9 m) (mean)
Installed power	8 × Yarrow boilers; 40,000 shp (30,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × steam turbines
Speed	28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)
Complement	301
Armament	2 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns; 8 × single 4 in (102 mm) guns; 1 × single 6 pdr (2.2 in (57 mm)) AA gun; 2 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Waterline belt: 1–3 in (25–76 mm); Deck: 1 in (25 mm); Conning tower: 6 in;

The fourth HMS Cleopatra was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I and the Russian Civil War. She was part of the Caroline group of the C class.

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