HMS Orion (85)
Leander-class cruiser light cruiser
Service
- as HMS Orion18 January 1934 — 19472,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Orion
- Pennant / hull number
- 85
- Builder
- Devonport Dockyard
- Laid down
- 26 September 1931
- Launched
- 24 November 1932
- Commissioned
- 18 January 1934
- Decommissioned
- 1947
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 19 July 1949 (1949)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,270 long tons (7,387 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 9,740 long tons (9,896 t)
- Length
- 169.13 m (554.9 ft)
- Beam
- 17.07 m (56 ft)
- Draught
- 5.82 m (19.1 ft)
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Complement
- 550
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Orion was a Leander-class cruiser light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 85. Devonport Dockyard laid her keel on 26 September 1931. Launched on 24 November 1932, she entered service on 18 January 1934.
Displacement was 7,270 long tons standard and 9,740 long tons at full load. She measured 169.1 m (555 ft) long with a beam of 17.1 m (56 ft). Her designed speed was 32.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 550.
Her main battery was eight 152 mm (6 in) guns. Her machinery developed 72,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1947.
She was broken up for scrap on 19 July 1949.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Four Parsons geared steam turbines
- Six Admiralty 3-drum oil-fired boilers
- Four shafts
- Power
- 72000 shp
- Armament
- Original configuration:
- 8 × BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval guns
- 4 × 4 in guns
- 12 × 0.5 in machine guns
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- In 1945:
- 8 × 6 in (152 mm)
- 8 × 4 in (102 mm)
- 16 × 40 mm
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (quadruple mounts)
- Armour
- 4 in (102 mm) main belt
- 2.5 in (64 mm) ends
- 1.25 to 2 in (32 to 51 mm) deck
- 1 in (25 mm) turrets
- Aircraft
- One catapult-launched aircraft
- Original type was a Fairey Seafox (K8571 shown in a 1937 photograph, and K8573 in a 1938 photograph)
- Catapult and aircraft later replaced with Supermarine Walrus
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Orion (85) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4708 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons