HMAS Canberra (D33)
Service
- 9 July 1928 — 9 August 19421,073 days of the war
- Name
- HMAS Canberra
- Pennant / hull number
- D33
- Namesake
- City of Canberra
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Laid down
- 9 September 1925
- Launched
- 31 May 1927
- Commissioned
- 9 July 1928
- Fate
- Scuttled, after heavy damage off Savo Island on 9 August 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 10,000 long tons (10,160 t)
- Length
- 192.02 m (630 ft) OA
- Beam
- 20.8 m (68.2 ft)
- Draught
- 6.4 m (21 ft)
- Speed
- 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h, 36.2 mph)
- Range
- 2,870 nmi (5,315 km)
- Complement
- 690
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
HMAS Canberra was a County-class cruiser in service with the Royal Australian Navy. She carried the pennant number D33. She was named for City of Canberra. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company, Clydebank on 9 September 1925. Launched on 31 May 1927, she entered service on 9 July 1928.
She was one of 13 ships of her class. The class followed the Hawkins-class cruiser and was succeeded by the York-class cruiser.
Displacement was 10,000 long tons. She measured 192.0 m (630 ft) long with a beam of 20.8 m (68 ft). Her designed speed was 31.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 690. Her main battery was of 203 mm (8.0 in) calibre.
She carried one aircraft.
She was in commission for 1,073 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 9 August 1942, at 9°12′S 159°55′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
- 8 Yarrow boilers, 4 shaft Brown-Curtis geared turbines, 80,000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × 2 – 8 inch guns (4 twin turrets)
- 4 × 1 – 4 inch anti-aircraft guns
- 4 × 1 – 2-pounder (40 mm) quadruple pom-poms
- 4 × 1 – 3-pounder (47 mm) saluting guns
- 12–16 .303-inch machine guns
- 2 × 4 – 21 inch torpedo tubes
- 4 × multiple pom-poms (installed 1942)
- 5 × 1 – 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- Armour
- 1.5 to 3 in armour deck over machinery spaces and magazines
- up to 2 in over turrets
- up to 3 in on conning tower
- Anti-torpedo bulges
- Aircraft
- 1 amphibious aircraft (initially Seagull III, later Walrus)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMAS Canberra (D33) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo 80-G-13454-A — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons