H.M.S. Calypso
I.61
1939
(Neptun 1149c)
- Class: Caledon - 4 cruisers of 1915
- Displacement: 4,180 tons
- Dimensions: 425'4" (pp) 449'10" (oa) x 42'9" x 14'3"
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared turbines, SHP 40,000 = 29 knots
- Armor: Main belt 2in (fwd), 3in (amid), 2in (aft), deck 1in
- Armament: 5-6in (5x1), 2-3in QF Mk I (2x1), 2-2pdr (2x1) guns; 8-21" TT (4x2)
- Complement: 334
- Builder: Hawthorne Leslie
- Laid Down: 7 Feb 1916
- Launched: 24 Jan 1917
- Completed: 21 Jun 1917
- Service: Joined 6th LCS of the Grand Fleet 1917. Badly hit in Heligoland Bight action 17 Nov 1917. Deployed to Baltic 1918-19, then joined 3rd LCS in the Mediterranean. Returned home in 1932 and reduced to reserve. Reactivated and joined 7th LCS of Home Fleet on Northern Patrol duties in 1939.
Captured blockade runners Minden 24 Sep and Konsul Hendrik Fisser 22 Nov 1939. Joined Mediterranean Fleet at Alexandria in 1940. Torpedoed and sunk southwest of Crete by Italian submarine Bagnolini 12 Jun 1940.
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