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Name: COMUS
Type: Cruiser
Keel: 03/11/1913
Launched: 16/12/1914
Completed: 05/1915
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 951
Dimensions: 3750disp - 4733disp, 420.0 x 41.5 x 13.5(draft)ft
Engines: 4 x Steam turbines, DR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 4 x Screws, 29.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 6.0ins, 8 x 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 13pdr guns; 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes;
(by 1919: 4 x 1 x 6.0ins, 2 x 1 x 3.0ins AA guns; 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes)
History:
05/1915 British Royal Navy
28/07/1934 Broken up
Comments: A member of the Caroline sub class of the C Class of light cruisers
28/07/1934: Sold to TW Ward Ltd for breaking up at Barrow


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