HMS Fiji
Fiji-class cruiser light cruiser
Service
- as Fiji5 May 1940 — 22 May 1941382 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Fiji
- Namesake
- Colony of Fiji
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Laid down
- 30 March 1938
- Launched
- 31 May 1939
- Commissioned
- 5 May 1940
- Fate
- Sunk by German bombers, 22 May 1941
By aircraft (1941) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,530 long tons (8,667 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 10,724 long tons (10,896 t)
- Length
- 169.16 m (555 ft)
- Beam
- 18.9 m (62 ft)
- Draught
- 5.79 m (19 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.7 km/h, 37.1 mph)
- Range
- 6,250 nmi (11,575 km)
- Complement
- 733
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Fiji was a Fiji-class cruiser light cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship was named after Colony of Fiji. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company, Clydebank on 30 March 1938. Launched on 31 May 1939, she entered service on 5 May 1940.
She displaced 8,530 long tons standard and 10,724 long tons at full load. She measured 169.2 m (555 ft) long with a beam of 18.9 m (62 ft). Her designed speed was 32.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 733.
Her main battery was twelve 152 mm (6 in) guns in four triple mountings. She carried two aircraft. Her machinery developed 80,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 382 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 22 May 1941 by aircraft. 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
- 4 shafts; 4 geared steam turbine sets
- Power
- 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 80000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × triple 6 in (152 mm) guns
- 4 × twin 4 in (102 mm) DP guns
- 2 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Engine and boiler rooms: 3.25 in
- Decks: 2 - 3.5 in
- Magazines: 2 - 3.5 in
- Gun turrets: 1 - 2 in
- Aircraft
- 2 × seaplanes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Fiji on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7359/large.jpg This photograph FL 13125 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons