HMS Manchester (15)
Town-class cruiser (1936) light cruiser
Service
- as Manchester4 August 1938 — 13 August 19421,077 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Manchester
- Pennant / hull number
- 15
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
- Laid down
- 28 March 1936
- Launched
- 12 April 1937
- Commissioned
- 4 August 1938
- Fate
- Scuttled, 13 August 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 9,400 long tons (9,551 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 11,650 long tons (11,837 t)
- Length
- 180.14 m (591 ft) OA
- Beam
- 18.9 m (62 ft)
- Draught
- 6.1 m (20 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 800
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Manchester was a Town-class cruiser (1936) light cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 15. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn on 28 March 1936. Launched on 12 April 1937, she entered service on 4 August 1938.
She displaced 9,400 long tons standard and 11,650 long tons at full load. She measured 180.1 m (591 ft) long with a beam of 18.9 m (62 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 800.
Her main battery was twelve 152 mm (6 in) guns in four triple mountings. She carried two aircraft. Her machinery developed 82,500 shp.
She was in commission for 1,077 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 13 August 1942, at 36°50′N 11°10′E. 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 turbines
- Power
- 4 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 82500 shp
- Armament
- 4 × triple 6 in guns
- 4 × twin 4 in DP guns
- 2 × quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in AA machine guns
- 2 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 4.5 in
- Deck: 1.25 - 2 in
- Gun turrets: 2 - 4 in
- Aircraft
- 2 × Supermarine Walrus flying boats
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Manchester (15) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4159 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons