Aurora (H.M.S.)

This vessel served with the Grand Fleet 1914-1916. This vessel was the first vessel in action at the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915. This vessel was present at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet in 11/1918. This vessel was commissioned as H.M.C.S. Aurora in service with the RCN as a 1920-1922 as a Canadian Naval Cruiser, Arethusa Class Light. Her first major training exercise was to sail from Halifax via he Panama Canal to Esquimalt and return. This vessel was paid off in 1922 due to budget cuts and disarmed in 1922. This vessel was paid off on 1 July 1922 and disarmed. Her weapons were placed ashore in training facilities and on other active ships. Her crew was reduced to non-manned, much of her up-to-date equipment was salvaged for use in other Canadian warships. Aurora's hulk was left alongside a jetty at the Canadian naval base in Halifax until 1927 when her deterioration resulted in city officials demanding the navy move her. The Royal Canadian Navy immediately sold her for scrap in August 1927 to A.A. Lasseque of Sorel, Quebec, and this vessel was broken up.