HMAS Hobart (D63)
Modified Leander-class light cruiser
Service
- as Apollo13 January 1936 — 1938
- as Hobart28 September 1938 — 20 December 19472,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMAS Hobart
- Pennant / hull number
- D63
- Builder
- HM Dockyard, Devonport
- Laid down
- 15 August 1933
- Launched
- 9 October 1934
- Commissioned
- 13 January 1936
- Decommissioned
- 1938
- Fate
- Sold for scrap in 1962 (1962)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,003 long tons (7,115 t)
- Length
- 171.3 m (562 ft) OA
- Beam
- 17.07 m (56 ft)
- Draught
- 5.79 m (19 ft)
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Complement
- 646
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMAS Hobart was a Modified Leander-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D63. Her keel was laid at HM Dockyard, Devonport on 15 August 1933. She entered service on 13 January 1936, having been launched on 9 October 1934.
Displacement was 7,003 long tons. She measured 171.3 m (562 ft) long with a beam of 17.1 m (56 ft). Her designed speed was 32.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 646. Her main battery was of 152 mm (6.0 in) calibre.
She carried one aircraft. Her machinery developed 72,000 shp through four shafts.
She served with the Royal Navy as Apollo until 1938. She then passed to the Royal Australian Navy, serving as Hobart from 28 September 1938. She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1938.
She was broken up for scrap in 1962.
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
- 72000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin BL 6 in guns
- 4 × single QF 4 in guns
- 3 × quadruple 0.5 in AA machineguns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 3 in
- Magazine: 2 - 3.5 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Gun turrets: 1 in
- Aircraft
- 1 Supermarine Walrus
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMAS Hobart (D63) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Allan C. Green 1878 - 1954 — State Library of Victoria [1] (cropped, improved contrast, removed background noises) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons