HMS Cambrian (1916)

HMS Cambrian (1916)

HMS "Cambrian" was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the "Cambrian" group of the C-class of cruisers.

She was laid down on December 1914, launched March 3 1916 and commissioned into the navy in May 1916. She was assigned to the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. She had a relatively quiet wartime career, and survived the war. She was considered obsolete before the Second World War, and was sold on July 28 1934 to Metal Industries, of Rosyth to be broken up for scrap.

References

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


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