HMS Caroline (1914)
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HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that was the lead ship of her sub-class. Completed in 1914, she saw combat service during the First World War and served as an
Caroline in 1917
Caroline's bow
HMS Caroline sporting her three flags (From left to right) Union Jack, Commodore RNR's Broad pennant, White Ensign whilst still in commissioned service
Stern view of Caroline at night
HMS President (1918)
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HMS President is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently on the Thames as a Royal Navy Reserve drill ship. In 1988 she was
HMS Caroline (1914)
…three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War, along with the 1915 monitor HMS M33 (in Portsmouth dockyard), and the Flower-class sloop HMS President, (formerly HMS Saxifrage) usually moored on the Thames at Blackfriars but as from February 2016, in Number 3 Basin, Chatham. The C-class cruisers were…
HMS President in the Thames
The former Anchusa-class convoy sloop HMS Saxifrage dazzle-painted in 1918.
A view of President with St Paul's Cathedral and the City of London in the background
HMS President painted by Tobias Rehberger in 2014 to commemorate the use of dazzle camouflage in World War I.