HMS Concord (1916)

	Concord in 1929
History
United Kingdom
Name	Concord
Builder	Vickers Limited
Laid down	1 February 1915
Launched	1 April 1916
Completed	December 1916
Commissioned	December 1916
Decommissioned	July 1923
Recommissioned	May 1924
Decommissioned	October 1927
Recommissioned	1928
Decommissioned	January 1933
Fate	Sold August 1935 for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type	C-class light cruiser
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 (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)
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 Concord was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service during the First World War. She was part of the Centaur group of the C class.

On 25 December 1918 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer, a member of the Polish National Committee re-organising Polish state after 123 years of partitions, arrived at Gdańsk (Danzig) on board HMS Concord on his way to Poznań and Warsaw. He formed the first Cabinet of the re-born Poland which on 26 January 1919 organised the first elections.

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