HMS Effingham
Hawkins-class cruiser heavy cruiser
Service
- as Effingham? — 18 May 1940260 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Effingham
- Pennant / hull number
- I98
- Namesake
- Lord Howard of Effingham
- Builder
- HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
- Ordered
- December 1915
- Laid down
- 6 April 1917
- Launched
- 8 June 1921
- Fate
- Wrecked off Bodø, Norway, 18 May 1940 (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 9,860 long tons (10,018 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 12,800 long tons (13,005 t)
- Length
- 184.1 m (604 ft) OA
- Beam
- 19.81 m (65 ft)
- Draught
- 5.79 m (19 ft)
- Speed
- 30.5 knots (56.5 km/h, 35.1 mph)
- Range
- 5,640 nmi (10,445 km)
- Complement
- 690
- Main gun
- 190 mm (7.5 in)
HMS Effingham was a Hawkins-class cruiser heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number I98. She was named for Lord Howard of Effingham. HM Dockyard, Portsmouth laid her keel on 6 April 1917. She was launched on 8 June 1921.
She displaced 9,860 long tons standard and 12,800 long tons at full load. She measured 184.1 m (604 ft) long with a beam of 19.8 m (65 ft). Her designed speed was 30.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 690.
Her main battery was seven 190 mm (7.5 in) guns. Her machinery developed 65,000 shp.
She was in commission for 260 days of the Second World War.
She was wrecked on 18 May 1940, at 67°17′N 14°03′E.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 4 × shafts; 4 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 10 × Yarrow boilers
- 65000 shp
- Armament
- 7 × single 7.5 in guns
- 3 × single 4 in AA guns
- 2 × single 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 1.5 - 3 in
- Deck: 1 - 1.5 in
- Gun shields: 1 in
1938
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,410 nmi (10,019 km)
- Complement
- 800
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Power
- 8 × Yarrow boilers
- 61000 shp
- Armament
- 9 × single 6 in guns
- 4 × single 4 in AA guns
- 3 × quadruple 0.5 in AA machine guns
- 4 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Effingham on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/55/292/large_000000.jpg This photograph Q 65717 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons