HMS Calypso (D61)
Service
- as Calypso21 June 1917 — 12 June 1940285 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Calypso
- Pennant / hull number
- D61
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company
- Laid down
- 17 February 1916
- Launched
- 24 January 1917
- Commissioned
- 21 June 1917
- Fate
- Sunk, 12 June 1940 (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 4,120 long tons (4,186 t)
- Length
- 137.16 m (450 ft)
- Beam
- 13.08 m (42.9 ft)
- Draught
- 4.36 m (14.3 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 344
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Calypso was a C-class light cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D61. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie and Company on 17 February 1916. Launched on 24 January 1917, she entered service on 21 June 1917.
She was one of 40 ships of her class. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
Displacement was 4,120 long tons. She measured 137.2 m (450 ft) long with a beam of 13.1 m (43 ft). Her designed speed was 29 knots, and she carried a complement of 344.
Her main battery was five 152 mm (6 in) guns. Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She was in commission for 285 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 12 June 1940, at 34°03′N 24°05′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 6 × Yarrow boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 5 × single 6 in guns
- 2 × single 3 in AA guns
- 4 × single 3 pdr (47 mm) guns
- 4 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Side: 3 in (amidships); 1.25 - 2.25 in (bow); 2 - 2.5 in (stern)
- Deck: 1 in (upper, amidships); 1 in (over rudder)
Sister ships
- HMCS Assiniboine (I18)
- HMCS Crescent
- HMCS Fraser (H48)
- HMCS Ottawa (H60)
- HMCS Restigouche (H00)
- HMCS St. Laurent (H83)
- HMS Caesar (R07)
- HMS Cairo
- HMS Calcutta (D82)
- HMS Caledon (D53)
- HMS Cambrian (R85)
- HMS Capetown
- HMS Caprice
- HMS Caradoc (D60)
- HMS Cardiff (D58)
- HMS Carlisle (D67)
- HMS Carron (R30)
- HMS Carysfort (R25)
- HMS Cassandra (R62)
- HMS Cavalier
- HMS Cavendish (R15)
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Chaplet
- HMS Charity (R29)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Calypso (D61) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — This photograph SP 1482 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons