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{{short description|Royal Navy C-class light cruiser}}
{{other ships|HMS Castor}}
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|Ship identification=[[Pennant number]]: C4 (1914); 33 (Jan 18);<ref>{{cite book |last1=Colledge |first1=J J |title=British Warships 1914–1919 |date=1972 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |page=48}}</ref> 20 (Apr 18); 85 (Nov 19)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dodson |first1=Aidan |title=The Development of the British Royal Navy’s Pennant Numbers Between 1919 and 1940 |journal=Warship International |date=2024 |volume=61 |issue=2 |page=134–66}}</ref>
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'''HMS ''Castor''''' was one of the ''Cambrian'' subclass of the {{sclass2|C|cruiser|4}} of [[light cruiser]]s. She saw service during the [[World War I|First World War]] and the [[Russian Civil War]].

==Construction==
Design of the ''Cambrian'' subclass was based on the earlier light cruisers {{HMS|Champion|1915|6}} and {{HMS|Calliope|1914|6}}, which, in turn, were based on the {{HMS|Caroline|1914|2}} subclass, using the same hull as the ''Caroline''s but with two [[Funnel (ship)|funnels]] and a maximum [[armor]] thickness of {{convert|4|in|mm|0}} as opposed to {{convert|3|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} in the ''Caroline''s.

''Castor'' was built by [[Cammell Laird]] at [[Birkenhead]], [[England]]. [[Keel laying|Laid down]] on 28 October 1914, she was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] on 28 July 1915 and completed in November 1915.<ref name="conways">Preston, p. 59</ref>

==Service history==

===World War I===
[[File:HMS Castor damage.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Large shell hole in the side of ''Castor'' after the Battle of Jutland]]
[[Ship commissioning|Commissioned]] in November 1915, ''Castor'' was the [[flagship]] of [[Commodore (Royal Navy)|Commodore]] (D), assigned to the [[11th Destroyer Flotilla]] in the [[Grand Fleet]]. She fought in the [[Battle of Jutland]], in which she was damaged by German gunfire and suffered 10 casualties.<ref name="conways"/>

On 4 October 1917, the [[United States Navy]] [[patrol vessel]] {{USS|Rehoboth|SP-384|6}} suffered an uncontrollable leak in her hull while on patrol duty off [[France]]. ''Rehoboth''{{'}}s crew had to be taken off, and ''Castor'' sank her with gunfire.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r4/rehoboth-i.htm |title=''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'': ''Rehoboth'' I |access-date=1 May 2014 |archive-date=2 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102080345/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r4/rehoboth-i.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Post-war===
After the [[World War I|First World War]], ''Castor'' served in the [[Black Sea]] from 1919 to 1920 during the [[Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War|British intervention]] in the [[Russian Civil War]]. In April 1920, she recommissioned at [[Chatham Dockyard]] for service in the 2nd Light Cruiser [[Squadron (naval)|Squadron]] in the [[Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom)|Atlantic Fleet]].<ref name="conways"/>

In 1921, ''Castor'' joined the light cruisers {{HMS|Caledon|D53|6}}, {{HMS|Cordelia|1914|2}}, and {{HMS|Curacoa|D41|2}} and the [[destroyer]]s {{HMS|Vanquisher|D54|2}}, {{HMS|Vectis|D51|2}}, {{HMS|Venetia|D53|2}}, {{HMS|Viceroy|D91|2}}, {{HMS|Violent|D57|2}}, {{HMS|Viscount|D92|2}}, {{HMS|Winchelsea|D46|2}}, and {{HMS|Wolfhound|D56|2}} in a [[Baltic Sea]] cruise, departing the United Kingdom on 31 August 1921. The ships crossed the [[North Sea]] and transited the [[Kiel Canal|Kaiser Wilhelm Canal]] to enter the Baltic, where they called at [[Danzig]] in the [[Free City of Danzig]]; [[Klaipėda|Memel]] in the [[Klaipėda Region]]; [[Liepāja]], [[Latvia]]; [[Riga]], Latvia; [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]]; [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]]; [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]; [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]; [[Gothenburg]], Sweden; and [[Oslo|Kristiania]], [[Norway]], before crossing the North Sea and ending the voyage at [[Port Edgar]], [[Scotland]], on 15 October 1921.<ref>[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1z06Baltic.htm Naval History: HMS VANQUISHER, BALTIC CRUISE 1921]</ref>

''Castor'' patrolled off the coast of [[Ireland]] in 1922 during the [[Irish Civil War]]. She was assigned to the [[Gun]]nery School at [[Portsmouth]] from 1923 to 1924, then was in the [[Nore]] [[Reserve Fleet (United Kingdom)|Reserve]] from 1924 to 1925.<ref name="conways"/>

''Castor'' underwent a refit from November 1925 to September 1926, then began transporting troops to [[China]] in October 1927. She recommissioned at [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport]] in June 1928 to serve on the [[China Station]]. She entered the Devonport Reserve in July 1930, then was [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] in May 1935.<ref name="conways"/>

==Disposal==
''Castor'' was sold on 30 July 1936 for [[Ship breaking|scrapping]] and arrived at the shipbreaker{{'}}s yard at [[Rosyth]] in August 1936.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

== References ==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After|year=2010|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-59114-078-8 |author-link=Norman Friedman}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Gray|editor1-first=Randal|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 |year=1985 |location=Annapolis, Maryland|publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=0-85177-245-5 |name-list-style=amp |chapter=Great Britain and Empire Forces|first1=Antony|last1=Preston|author-link=Antony Preston|pages=1–104}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/light-cruiser/hms-Cambrian.html Cambrian Class Light Cruisers]
* {{Cite web
| title = Royal Navy Log Books of the World War 1 Era - HMS Castor
| accessdate = 2013-12-15
| url = http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Castor.htm
}} Transcription of ship's logbooks November 1918 to May 1920
* [https://www.jutlandcrewlists.org/castor Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project - HMS Castor Crew List]

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