HMS Concord (1916)

HMS Concord (1916)

HMS "Concord" was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was part of the "Centaur" group of the C-class of cruisers.

She was built by Vickers Limited and laid down in February 1915, launched on April 1 1916 and commissioned into the Navy in December 1916. The Ottoman Empire had ordered a pair of scout cruisers in 1914. When the First World War started, construction was halted. A considerable amount of material had already been prepared, and much of this was used in the construction of HMS "Concord", and her sister HMS "Centaur".

Upon being commissioned into the Navy, "Concord" was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Flotilla, which operated with the Harwich Force to defend the Eastern approaches to the English Channel. She survived the war, and considered obsolete, was sold for scrapping. She arrived at the yards of Metal Industries, of Rosyth, on September 16 1935 to be broken up.

References

*Colledge
*Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
* [http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/light-cruiser/hms-Centaur.html Ships of the "Centaur" class]


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