Post War
In March 1919 she was commissioned for service with the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron (LCS) of the North America and West Indies station where she suffered with another engine room fire off the Azores in October 1919. She returned to Devonport for repairs between November 1919 to March 1920 then recommisioned to North America and West Indies station. From October 1921 to May 1924 she was with the Nore reserve when she was commissioned to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron Atlantic fleet. Between 1925-26 and 1927-28 she was used for trooping runs but in September 1928 received her last commission, this time with the 3rd CS in the Mediterranean Fleet which ended in January 1930 when she paid off into reserve at Portsmouth Dockyard.
She was sold for scrap in 1934.
Read more about this topic: HMS Calliope (1914)
Famous quotes containing the words post and/or war:
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother’s nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others ...”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)