Royal Navy Wooden Ships Badge – HMS Caradoc 1916

Royal Navy Wooden Ships Badge – HMS Caradoc 1916

HMS Caradoc was a C-class Light Cruiser

Built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock

HMS Caradoc formed part of the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, she was deployed into the Atlantic Ocean on the outbreak of war and assigned to operate off the North American coast

In 1940 the German blockade runner Rhein was intercepted by the Dutch sloop HrMs Van Kinsbergen west of the Florida Strait. The Rhein was set on fire by her own crew to prevent her capture, and the wreck was sunk later that day by HMS Caradoc

HMS Caradoc became a base ship in April 1944, and after the end of the war was considered obsolete

She was scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales in 1946

Dimensions :

Wooden

38cm x 24cm    9in x 15in

1kg weight

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