HMS Caroline
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HMS Caroline is an attraction, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Slieve Croob stands 534 m to the south, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Thompson Dock Pump House, a museum 0.1 miles away. Causeway Coastal Route passes 3.5 miles off.
The story
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 administrative centre in the Second World War. The ship served as a static headquarters and training ship for the Royal Naval Reserve, based in Alexandra Dock, Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the later stages of her career. At the time of her decommissioning in 2011, she was the second-oldest ship in Royal Navy service, after the ship-of-the-line HMS Victory. Caroline was converted into a museum ship after she was decommissioned. From October 2016, she underwent inspection and repairs to her hull at Harland and Wolff and opened to the public on 1 July 2017 at Alexandra Dock in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. Caroline was the last remaining British First World War light cruiser in service, and she is the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland still afloat. She is also one of only 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.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q1504233, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1914
What to expect
How to reach it
- 3.5 mi off the Causeway Coastal Route
Overlooks nearby
- The Mount · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Glass of Thrones: House Lannister: 0.1 mi
- Blinks: 0.2 mi
- The Great Light: 0.2 mi
- Glass of Thrones: White Walkers: 0.3 mi
- Glass of Thrones: the Iron Throne: 0.3 mi
- Titanic Slipway: 0.4 mi
- Titanic Belfast: 0.5 mi
- SS Nomadic: 0.6 mi
- Port Mark: 0.8 mi
- Junction Mark: 0.8 mi
- Titanic Names Wall 2: 0.4 mi
- Titanic Names Wall 1: 0.4 mi
- McGurk's Bar bombing tombstone and commemorative plaque: 1.2 mi
- Albert Memorial Clock: 1.2 mi
- Andrew Nicholl: 1.3 mi
- Victoria Park: 0.7 mi
- Victoria Park: 0.8 mi
- Navigation Buoys Park: 0.8 mi
- Dr Pitt Memorial Park: 1.0 mi
- CS Lewis Square: 1.2 mi
- City Quays Gardens: 0.9 mi
- Grove Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Lisvannon Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- Peas Park Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Westland Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- McArt's Fort: 2.9 mi
- Cavehill: 3.1 mi
- Collinward: 3.5 mi
- Braniel Hill: 3.6 mi
- Squires Hill: 3.7 mi
- Thompson Dock Pump House: 0.1 mi
- W5: 0.8 mi
- Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum: 1.3 mi
- Northern Ireland War Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Royal Ulster Rifles Museum: 1.3 mi
- RSPB Belfast Lough: 1.5 mi
- Bog Meadows: 3.2 mi
- Lagan Meadows: 3.9 mi
- Slievenacloy Nature Reserve: 7.3 mi
- Kiltonga Nature Reserve: 7.5 mi
- Volunteers' Well: 2.8 mi
- Spa Well: 13.8 mi
- Tobernaveen: 15.5 mi
- St. Mary's Well: 16.3 mi
- Sunday Well: 16.4 mi
- Cuan Beach: 18.3 mi
- Inch Abbey Station Picnic Area: 20.2 mi
- Seaforde Picnic Site: 20.5 mi
- Clough Picnic Site: 22.6 mi
- Playrock Viewpoint: 23.3 mi
- Newtownabbey Bay (Hazelbank) Beach: 3.4 mi
- Seapark Beach: 4.0 mi
- Brompton Bay: 9.5 mi
- Skippingstone Beach: 9.7 mi
- Browns bay walk: 17.4 mi
- Limestone Quarry: 3.0 mi
- Cave Hill: 3.0 mi
- Bellevue Area of Special Scientific Interest: 3.6 mi
- Ballygalley Head: 19.9 mi
- Spinkanee: 22.5 mi
- Lisnabreeney Waterfall: 3.3 mi
- Glenoe Waterfall: 13.1 mi
- Stepping Stones: 16.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of HMS Caroline. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slieve Croob | S 189° | 534 m | 19.1 mi |
| Divis | W 268° | 478 m | 4.6 mi |
| Agnew's Hill | N 355° | 474 m | 16.1 mi |
| Slievenisky | S 187° | 446 m | 19.7 mi |
| Slemish | NNW 337° | 437.9 m | 20.1 mi |
| Cratlieve | SSW 192° | 429 m | 19.8 mi |
| Douglas Top | NNW 339° | 402 m | 18.1 mi |
| Slievegarran | S 188° | 391 m | 21.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:27 | 17:49 | 18:37 |
| June solstice | 04:48 | 21:04 | 22:05 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:38 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 08:45 | 14:47 | 16:00 |
Local time (Europe/London).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/158101610
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