Royal Navy — Light cruiser
HMS Capetown
Service
- as HMS CapetownFebruary 1922 — 5 April 19462,193 days of the war
C-class cruiser light cruiser
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Capetown
- Builder
- Cammell Laird
- Laid down
- 23 February 1917
- Launched
- 28 June 1918
- Commissioned
- February 1922
- Fate
- Broken up from June 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Length
- 137.59 m (451.4 ft)
- Beam
- 13.38 m (43.9 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 330
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Capetown was a C-class cruiser light cruiser, operated by the Royal Navy. Cammell Laird laid her keel on 23 February 1917. She entered service in February 1922, having been launched on 28 June 1918.
40 ships of the class were built. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
She measured 137.6 m (451 ft) long with a beam of 13.4 m (44 ft). Her designed speed was 29 knots, and she carried a complement of 330.
Her main battery was five 152 mm (6 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in June 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Parsons geared turbines
- Yarrow boilers
- 2 propellers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 5 × 6 in guns
- 2 × 3 in anti-aircraft guns
- 4 × 3-pounder guns
- 2 × 2-pounder pom-poms
- 1 × machine gun
- 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- 3in side (amidships)
- 2¼-1½in side (bows)
- 2in side (stern)
- 1in upper decks (amidships)
- 1in deck 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 Calypso (D61)
- HMS Cambrian (R85)
- 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 Capetown on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7497 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons