HMS Concord 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 Centaur group of the C-class of cruisers.

She was built by Vickers Limited

Vickers Limited

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 and laid down in February 1915, launched on 1 April 1916 and commissioned into the Navy in December 1916. The Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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 had ordered a pair of scout cruisers in 1914. When the First World War started, construction was halted. A considerable amount of material had already been prepared, and much of this was used in the construction of HMS Concord, and her sister HMS Centaur

HMS Centaur (1916)

HMS Centaur was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was the nameship of the Centaur group of the C-class of cruisers....

.

Upon being commissioned into the Navy, Concord was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Flotilla, which operated with the Harwich Force

Harwich Force

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 to defend the Eastern approaches to the English Channel

English Channel

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 for the entire duration of the war. After the death of the exiled Portuguese King Manuel II of Portugal

Manuel II of Portugal

Manuel II , named Manuel Maria Filipe Carlos Amélio Luís Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Francisco de Assis Eugénio de Bragança Orleães Sabóia e Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha — , was the last King of Portugal from 1908 to 1910, ascending the throne after the assassination of his father and elder brother Manuel...

, HMS Concord was given the task of transporting the coffin of the former King to Lisbon on 2 August 1932, soon after she was considered obsolete and was sold for scrapping. She arrived at the yards of Metal Industries, of Rosyth

Rosyth

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, on 16 September 1935 to be broken up.