HMS Cumberland (57)
Service
- as Cumberland23 February 1928 — 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Cumberland
- Pennant / hull number
- 57
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow in Furness
- Laid down
- 18 October 1924
- Launched
- 16 March 1926
- Commissioned
- 23 February 1928
- Decommissioned
- 1946
- Recommissioned
- 1951
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 1959 (1959)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 9,750 long tons (9,906 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 13,450 long tons (13,666 t)
- Length
- 192.02 m (630 ft)
- Beam
- 20.73 m (68 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h, 36.2 mph)
- Range
- 3,100 nmi (5,741 km)
- Complement
- 679
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
HMS Cumberland was a County-class cruiser heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 57. Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow in Furness laid her keel on 18 October 1924. She entered service on 23 February 1928, having been launched on 16 March 1926.
She was one of 13 ships of her class. The class followed the Hawkins-class cruiser and was succeeded by the York-class cruiser.
She displaced 9,750 long tons standard and 13,450 long tons at full load. She measured 192.0 m (630 ft) long with a beam of 20.7 m (68 ft). Her designed speed was 31.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 679.
Her main battery was eight 203 mm (8 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1946. She recommissioned in 1951.
She was broken up for scrap in 1959.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Eight Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Four shaft Brown Curtis geared turbines
- 80,000 shp
- Armament
- Original configuration:
- 8 × 8 in (203 mm) dual guns
- 4 × 4 in (102 mm) single AA guns
- 2 × 2 pdr (40 mm) quadruple pom-pom mounts
- 2 × 0.5 in MG quadruple guns
- 2 × 21 in (533 mm) quad torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Original configuration:
- 1 to 4 in magazine box protection
- 1.375 in deck
- 1 in side-plating, turrets and bulkheads
- 4.5 in belt
- 4 internal boiler room sides (added 1936-1940)
- Aircraft
- Three aircraft with one catapult, removed in 1942
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Cumberland (57) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Keast J E V (Sub Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 31120 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons