HMAS Sydney (D48)
Modified Leander-class light cruiser
Service
- as Sydney24 September 1935 — 19 November 1941810 days of the war
- Name
- HMAS Sydney
- Pennant / hull number
- D48
- Namesake
- Sydney, Australia
- Builder
- Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne, England
- Laid down
- 8 July 1933
- Launched
- 22 September 1934
- Commissioned
- 24 September 1935
- Fate
- Sunk in battle with all hands lost, 19 November 1941 (1941)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,198 long tons (7,314 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 8,940 long tons (9,083 t)
- Length
- 171.3 m (562 ft) OA
- Beam
- 17.07 m (56 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Complement
- 590
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
HMAS Sydney was a Modified Leander-class light cruiser built for the Royal Australian Navy. She carried the pennant number D48. The ship was named after Sydney. Her keel was laid at Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne, England on 8 July 1933. Launched on 22 September 1934, she entered service on 24 September 1935.
Displacement was 7,198 long tons standard and 8,940 long tons at full load. 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 590. Her main battery was of 150 mm (5.9 in) calibre.
She carried one aircraft. Her machinery developed 72,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 810 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 19 November 1941, at 26°00′S 111°00′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
- 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 4 shafts
- Power
- 72000 shp
- Armament
- 8 × 6-inch (150 mm) breech-loading Mk XXIII guns (4 × Mk XXI twin turrets)
- 4 × 4-inch (100 mm) quick firing Mk V guns (4 × Mk IV single high-angle mountings)
- 12 × 0.5-inch (13 mm) Vickers Mk III machine guns (3 × Mk II quadruple mountings)
- 14 × 0.303-inch (7.7 mm) Lewis machine guns (reduced to 9 before 1939)
- 2 × 0.303-inch (7.7 mm) Vickers machine guns (removed before 1939)
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) deck-mounted torpedo tubes (2 × QR Mk VII quadruple mountings, 8 × Mk 9 torpedoes)
- 4 × 3-pounder (47-mm, 1.9-in) Hotchkiss quick-firing saluting guns (removed in 1940)
- Armour
- 1 in hull plating
- 3 in belt over machinery spaces
- 2 in belt over magazines and shell rooms
- Aircraft
- 1 × Supermarine Walrus
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMAS Sydney (D48) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Green, Allan C., 1878-1954, photographer. — https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/61SLV_INST/156d4cp/alma9916488333607636 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons