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HMS Caledon (D53)
HMS ''Caledon'' was a light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was the name ship of the ''Caledon'' sub-class of the C class. She survived both world wars to be scrapped in 1948.
==Design and description==
The ''Caledon'' sub-class was a slightly larger and improved version of the preceding ''Centaur'' sub-class with a more powerful armament. The ships were long overall, with a beam of and a deep draught of . Displacement was at normal and at deep load.〔Friedman 2010, p. 387〕 ''Caledon'' was powered by two Parsons steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, which produced a total of . The turbines used steam generated by six Yarrow boilers which gave her a speed of about . She carried tons of fuel oil. The ship had a crew of about 400 officers and other ranks; this increased to 437 when serving as a flagship.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 60〕
The main armament of the ''Caledon''-class ships consisted of five BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XII guns that were mounted on the centreline. One gun was forward of the bridge, two were fore and aft of the two funnels and the last two were in the stern, with one gun superfiring over the rearmost gun. The two anti-aircraft guns were positioned abreast of the fore funnel. The torpedo armament of the ''Caledon''s was four times more powerful than that of the ''Centaur''s, with eight torpedo tubes in four twin mounts, two on each broadside.〔
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