HMS Calliope British light cruiser under construction at the outbreak of World War I [sister ship: HMS Champion]. Design of Calliope and Champion based on HMS Caroline, using the same hull as Caroline but with one fewer funnel and slightly thicker armor.
Built by HM Dockyard at Chatham. Laid down: January, 1914; launched: December, 1914. Completed: June, 1915. Displacement: 3,759 tons. Crew: 324 Length: 446' [overall], beam: 41.5', draught 16' [maximum]. Guns: 4 x 6", 2 x 3" aa, Torpedo tubes: 2 x 21" [submerged]. Machinery: 8 Yarrow boilers. Parsons turbines. Oil fuel. Performance: designed 37,500 shp = 28.5 kts. Trials: 30,917 shp = 28 kts.
Essentially a forerunner of the Cambrian class. One of five ships in the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland [1916]. Badly damaged by a fuel oil fire while at sea in November, 1919. Decision to scrap the ship probably influenced by this fire.
The fourth Calliope, launched in 1914, was a light cruiser, the lead ship of her class.
HMSCalliope is currently the name of one of the fourteen Royal Naval Reserve units.
She is a "stone frigate" (a shore establisment) situated on the Gateshead bank of the River Tyne, between the Tyne Bridge and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
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