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HMS Curacoa was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She was one of the five ships of the Ceres sub-class and spent much of her career as a flagship . The ship was assigned to the Harwich Force during the war, but saw little action as she was completed less than a year before the war ended.
HMS Curacoa (1854), a wood screw frigate launched in 1854. She was flagship of the Australia Station during the New Zealand Wars and was broken up in 1869. HMS Curacoa (1878), a screw corvette launched in 1878 and sold in 1904. HMS Curacoa (D41), a C-class light cruiser launched in 1917 and accidentally sunk by RMS Queen Mary in 1942.
HMS Curacoa was a Comus-class corvette of the Royal Navy, built by John Elder & Co., Govan, launched in 1878, and sold in 1904 to be broken up. [2] She served on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station , the Australia Station and as a training cruiser in the Atlantic.
The C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in seven groups known as the Caroline class (six ships), the Calliope class (two ships), the Cambrian class (four ships), the Centaur class (two ships), the Caledon class (four ships), the Ceres class (five ships) and the Carlisle class (five ships).
HMS Curacoa was a fifth-rate 36-gun sailing frigate of the Royal Navy.Ordered in October 1806 and launched in September 1809, she was one of a new series of Apollo-class frigates designed by Sir William Rule in 1798.
HMS Curacoa was a 31-gun Tribune-class screw frigate launched on 13 April 1854 from Pembroke Dockyard. [1]She served in the Mediterranean Station between 1854 until 1857 and was in the Black Sea during the Crimean War.
British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen contains information about servicemen of different nationalities whose tombs can be found within the Cemetery. A few of the ships mentioned are well known to the general public, such as STV Royston Grange or HMNZS Achilles, which fought in the Battle of the River Plate.
HMS Curacoa (1809), a 36-gun fifth-rate ship launched in 1809. She was reduced to 24 guns in 1831 and broken up in 1849; HMS Curacoa (1854), a wood-screw frigate launched in 1854, she was flagship of the Australia Station during the New Zealand Land Wars and was broken up in 1869; HMS Curacoa (1878), a screw corvette launched in 1878 and sold ...