HMS Centaur
Built Vickers, laid down January 1915, completed August 1916.
HMS Concord
Built Vickers, laid down February 1915, completed December 1916.
Size:
Length 420 feet pp 446 feet overall, beam 42 feet, draught 14 feet 6inches, displacement 4,165 tons normal 4,870 tons
deep..
Propulsion:
4 shaft Parsons turbines, 40,000 shp, 29kts
Armour:
3-1.5in belt, 1in decks
Armament:
5 x 6in 45cal Mk XII (5 x 1), 2 x 3in (2 x 1), 2 x 21in TT
Comments:
The Ottoman Empire ordered a pair of scout cruisers in 1914. When war started construction was stopped although
much material had been prepared and much of this was used in these two ships. Crew 437.
World War 1 Service:
Centaur
5th Light Cruiser Flotilla Harwich Force.
18 June 1918 Damaged by mine.
1934 Sold for scrap.
Concord
5th Light Cruiser Flotilla Harwich Force.
1934 Sold for scrap.
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