The 4th Light Cruiser Squadron was a naval formation of
Light cruisers of the
Royal Navy
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from 1915 to 1919.
History
World War One
Formed on 15 May 1915 it was then assigned to the
Grand Fleet in August 1915 and remained attached the fleet until November 1918.
At the
Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland (german: Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of the Skagerrak) was a naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy ...
, the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron consisted of four
C-Class cruisers
C class may refer to:
Ships
* C-class destroyer (disambiguation), multiple destroyers
* C-class submarine (disambiguation), multiple submarines
* C-class corvette (disambiguation), ships of the Victorian Royal Navy
* C-class cruiser, Royal Nav ...
HMS
Calliope,
Constance
Constance may refer to:
Places
*Konstanz, Germany, sometimes written as Constance in English
*Constance Bay, Ottawa, Canada
* Constance, Kentucky
* Constance, Minnesota
* Constance (Portugal)
* Mount Constance, Washington State
People
* Consta ...
,
Caroline
Caroline may refer to:
People
* Caroline (given name), a feminine given name
* J. C. Caroline (born 1933), American college and National Football League player
* Jordan Caroline (born 1996), American (men's) basketball player
Places Antarctica
* ...
and
Comus
In Greek mythology, Comus (; grc, Κῶμος, ''Kōmos'') is the god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances. He is a son and a cup-bearer of the god Dionysus. He was represented as a winged youth or a child-like satyr and represents ana ...
plus the
Arethusa class cruiser HMS
Royalist
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. At Jutland, HMS Calliope flew the
broad pennant as Commodore Le Mesurier's flagship. The 4th Light Cruiser Squadron was initially deployed as an anti-submarine screen directly ahead of the main British battle fleet, with HMS Calliope in the lead followed, in order, by Constance, Comus, Royalist and Caroline. Shortly after 8:05p.m. 31 May, the First Division of the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron (Calliope, Constance and Comus), engaged with German destroyers and then sighted the main German battle fleet at which Calliope launched a torpedo before retiring under heavy German fire.
Interwar
In 1919 the squadron was assigned to the
East Indies Station.
Commodores/Rear-Admirals commanding
Post holders included:
References
Footnotes
Sources
*
Corbett, Julian S. (1923) ''Naval Operations. Official History of the War. Vol.III''. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
*
Harper, J. E. T. (2016) ''The Jutland Scandal: The Truth about the First World War's Greatest Sea Battle''. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, ISBN 978-1-5107-0871-6.
* Lambert, Andrew D.; Blyth, Robert J.; Rüger, Jan (2011). ''The Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age''. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. .
* Mackie, Colin, (2018), ''British Armed Services between 1860 and the present day — Royal Navy - Senior Appointments'', http://www.gulabin.com/.
* Watson, Dr Graham. (2015) "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914-1918". www.naval-history.net. Gordon Smith.
* Watson, Dr Graham. (2015) "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1919-1939". www.naval-history.net. Gordon Smith.
External links
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Light Cruiser squadrons of the Royal Navy
Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War I