Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Australian Navy — Light cruiser 1918

HMAS Adelaide (1918)

Town-class cruiser (1910) light cruiser

HMAS Adelaide (1918)
Australian or US military — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — 1918 AWM Caption: "Port bow view of the cruiser HMAS Adelaide . She is shown in her third armament configuration, armed with seven 6 inch and two 4 inch AA guns. Two 6 inch guns have been replaced in the waist by depth charge throwers; one of the guns has been remounted on the centreline aft, replacing a 4 inch AA gun. 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns are mounted port and starboard in the bridge wings, amidships

Service

  1. Royal Australian Navy as Adelaide5 August 1922 — 13 May 19462,193 days of the war
Town-class cruiser (1910) light cruiser Particulars
Name
HMAS Adelaide
Pennant / hull number
1918
Namesake
City of Adelaide
Builder
Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Laid down
20 November 1915
Launched
27 July 1918
Commissioned
5 August 1922
Decommissioned
27 June 1928
Recommissioned
13 March 1939
Fate
Sold for scrap
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
5,560 long tons (5,649 t)
Length
138.8 m (455.4 ft)
Beam
14.9 m (48.9 ft)
Draught
5.7 m (18.7 ft)
Speed
25 knots (46.3 km/h, 28.8 mph)
Complement
483
Main gun
152 mm (6 in)

HMAS Adelaide was a Town-class cruiser (1910) light cruiser built for the Royal Australian Navy. She carried the pennant number 1918. The ship was named after City of Adelaide. Her keel was laid at Cockatoo Island Dockyard on 20 November 1915. She entered service on 5 August 1922, having been launched on 27 July 1918.

Displacement was 5,560 long tons. She measured 138.8 m (455 ft) long with a beam of 14.9 m (49 ft). Her designed speed was 25 knots, and she carried a complement of 483.

Her main battery was nine 152 mm (6 in) guns. Her machinery developed 25,000 shp through two shafts.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 27 June 1928. She recommissioned on 13 March 1939.

She was broken up for scrap.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 2 shafts, steam turbines
Power
  • 25000 shp
Armament
  • Original configuration:
  • 9 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns
  • 1 × single 3 in (76-mm) AA gun
  • 1 × single 12 pdr (3-inch)field gun
  • 4 × 3 pdr (47 mm) saluting guns
  • 10 × .303-inch machine guns
  • 2 × 21 inch torpedo tubes
  • 2 × depth charge chutes
Armour
  • 3 in side armour-belt over amidships section

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