HMS Champion (1915)

HMS "Champion" was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was part of the "Calliope" group of the C-class of cruisers.

She was laid down on 9 March 1914, launched 29 May 1915 and commissioned into the navy on 20 December 1915. She was assigned to the Grand Fleet upon completion, as the Leader of the 13 Destroyer Flotilla. With a number of her sisters, "Champion" took part in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May to 1 June 1916. She survived the battle and the war, but was considered obsolete before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold for scrap on July 28, 1934 to Metal Industries, of Rosyth.

References

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