HMS Carysfort was a C-class

C class cruiser

The C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in a sequence of seven classes known as the Caroline , Calliope , Cambrian , Centaur , Caledon , Ceres and Carlisle classes...

 light cruiser

Light cruiser

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 of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. She was part of the Caroline group of the C-class of cruisers.

She was laid down in February 1914, launched 14 November 1914 and commissioned into the navy in June 1915. On the outbreak of war she was assigned as the leader of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet, but in 1916 she was reassigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, Harwich Force

Harwich Force

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, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel

English Channel

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, and so did not participate in the Battle of Jutland

Battle of Jutland

The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War. The battle was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark. It was the largest naval battle and the only...

. In 1917, she was assigned to the 7th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. She survived the war, but was considered obsolete before the outbreak of the Second World War and was arrived at the yards of McLellan in October, 1931 to be broken up.