HMS Liverpool (C11)
Town-class cruiser (1936) light cruiser
Service
- as Liverpool2 November 1938 — 19522,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Liverpool
- Pennant / hull number
- C11
- Namesake
- Liverpool
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
- Ordered
- 1935
- Laid down
- 17 February 1936
- Launched
- 24 March 1937
- Commissioned
- 2 November 1938
- Decommissioned
- 1952
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, July 1958 (1958)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 9,394 long tons (9,545 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 11,930 long tons (12,121 t)
- Length
- 180.14 m (591 ft) OA
- Beam
- 19.51 m (64 ft)
- Draught
- 6.1 m (20 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.8 km/h, 37.2 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 800
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Liverpool was a Town-class cruiser (1936) light cruiser, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number C11. She was named for Liverpool. Her keel was laid at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan on 17 February 1936. She entered service on 2 November 1938, having been launched on 24 March 1937.
Displacement was 9,394 long tons standard and 11,930 long tons at full load. She measured 180.1 m (591 ft) long with a beam of 19.5 m (64 ft). Her designed speed was 32.3 knots, and she carried a complement of 800.
Her main battery was twelve 152 mm (6 in) guns in four triple mountings. 82,500 shp drove four shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1952.
She was broken up for scrap in July 1958.
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
- 82500 shp
- Armament
- 4 × triple 6 in guns
- 4 × twin 4 in guns
- 2 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in AA machine guns
- 2 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Box protection: 4 - 1 in
- Waterline belt: 4 in
- Bulkheads: 2 in
- Gun turrets: 4 - 2 in
- Aircraft
- Three Supermarine Walrus; one catapult
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Liverpool (C11) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4984 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons