Royal Navy — Cruiser class
Danae-class cruiser
Danae class
The class in numbers
- 12 Planned
- 8 Completed
- 4 Cancelled
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 1918–1946
- Preceded by
- C-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Emerald-class cruiser
- Builders
- Armstrong Whitworth (3)
- Fairfield Shipbuilding (1)
- Palmers Shipbuilding (1)
- Scotts Shipbuilding (2)
- Vickers Limited (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 4,850 long tons (4,928 t)
- Length
- 144.02 m (472.5 ft) OA
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 450
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- 6 × BL 6 in L/45 Mark XII guns on single mountings CP Mark XIV (Diomede 1 × mount CP Mk.XVI)
- 2 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt L/45 Mk.I on mounts HA Mk.II
- 2 × QF 2-pounder L/39 Mk.II on mounts HA Mk.II
- 4 × triple tubes for 21 inch torpedoes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Danae (D44) | D44 | 1918 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Dauntless (D45) | D45 | 1918 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Delhi (D47) | D47 | 1919 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Despatch (D30) | D30 | 1922 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Dragon (D46) | D46 | 1918 | Scuttled 1944 |
| HMS Dunedin | 1919 | Sunk 1941 | |
| HMS Durban | 1921 | Sunk 1944 | |
| ORP Conrad | 1918 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| ORP Dragon | 1918 | Scuttled 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Danae-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.