HMS Caroline (1914)
- 8 Yarrow boilers
- 2 x Parsons steam turbines, each with 20,000 hp to 4 waves
- 2 x 6 "/ 45 BL Mk VII [A 1] (152 mm guns )
- 8 x 4 "/ 45 QF Mk V HA [A 2] (102 mm guns )
- 4 x QF 3-pdr/50 (47 mm guns )
- 8 x 21 " ( 533 mm ) torpedo tubes
The HMS Caroline was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy and served until 2011 as a training ship in Belfast. She is the last surviving warship that was involved in the Battle of Jutland. After her withdrawal, she was taken over by the National Museum of the Royal Navy.
History
The Caroline was built by Cammell Laird & Company, Birkenhead in just nine months and placed on 4 December 1914 as the first ship of her class officially in service. During the First World War, she was with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea in use and took part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. From 1918 she was stationed in Aden and operated in the Indian Ocean. 1924, the Caroline was converted into a training ship of the Naval Reserve and moored in Belfast, where the armament was removed.
On 1 December 2009 the Royal Naval Reserve Unit HMS Caroline was officially dissolved and established the same time as the Royal Naval Reserve Unit HMS Hibernia in Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn new. In July 2009, the Defense Department announced that talks with the Marine Museum were recorded in Portsmouth, HMS Caroline to accommodate there. However, the commander of HMS Caroline stated in December 2009 that the Royal Navy would prefer to leave the ship in Belfast.
The HMS Caroline was officially made on 31 March 2011 decommissioned and transferred to the National Museum of the Royal Navy. You should be preserved as a museum ship in the long term, however, the location issue is still unresolved. At the time of their withdrawal, the Caroline was after the HMS Victory, the oldest active warship in the Royal Navy and after the HMS Victory and the USS Constitution, the world's third oldest.