Talk:HMS Caroline (1914)

message: The USS Constitution is also commissioned and manned by a full U.S. Navy crew, so the author of this article should change the claim that Caroline is the second oldest commissioned warship in the world after Victory.
The USS Constitution is not the oldest warship on a continuous commission, other than HMS Victory. HMS Caroline has never been paid off, unlike the Constituion. Should this be reflected? B3bmcwi 14:24, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  USS Constitution 

message: The claim is mistaken anyway, since the ironclad Huáscar (ship) has been (and still is) on continuous commission since 1866. Mel Romero 01:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The claim is accurate.  Huascar was decommissioned in 1897 and recommissioned as a heritage ship in 1934. Benea 01:50, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And looking more closely at the source cited here, she was not in fact 'recommissioned as a heritage ship' but 'she was restored as a historical relic', something quite different.  I will alter the article accordingly. Benea 01:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Continuous commission claim

message: Anybody have details of current armaments on board ? Any original remaining ? It would be good to note current status on the page.Rcbutcher (talk) 04:31, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Current armament status ?

message: Belfast Telegraph
David (talk) 11:53, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  News on decommissioning, etc 

message: Builder: Cammel-Laird (Builder's number: 803)
Dimensions: overall 446 ft, Between perpendiculars 420ft
Displacement: 3750 tons nominal 3800? tons full load
Armamemt:
F'castle:
4 x 4"Q/F (replaced 1917-1919 by centreline 6"B/L and 2 x 3" high angle
Waist:
4 x 4"Q/F (replaced 1917-1919 by centreline 6"B/L
Twin 21" torpedo tube mountings midships on each side
2 x 3lb saluting guns
Aft:
2 x centreline 6"B/L (superfiring)
Protection:
3" midships, 2 1/2" - 1 1/2" bows, 2 1/2 - 2" stern, 1" upper deck and rudder head
Machinery:
4 x parsons turbines, 8 Yarrow boilers, 4 screws, 30,000 hp = 28 1/2 knots (917 tons fuel oil) (have heard of reports of 29 1/2 knots on trials)
Service Record:
Grand Fleet (4th flotilla?) 1915
1st and 4th light cruiser squadrons 1915 - 1918
East Indes Fleet? 1919 - 1922
Paid off to reserve at Devonport 1922
Arrived in Belfast as drill ship Ulster Division RNVR 1924
Alterations and additions 1917 - 1919 included (in addition to those mentioned above):
Tripod mast and control top replaced original pole mast
Rangefinder/searchlight/after control tower added 1917 then replaced by rangefinder 1919
Ship's Motto:
TENAX PROPOSITI
Batavia 1906
Bandaneira 1910
Java 1811
Jutland 1916
hope this may be useful as this ship is unique and the more that is recorded the better
Billy.mckeown@gmail.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.172.116.186 (talk) 19:32, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further information (not verified but believed to be true) 

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