HMS Argonaut (61)
Service
- as Argonaut8 August 1942 — 6 July 19461,121 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Argonaut
- Pennant / hull number
- 61
- Builder
- Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, UK)
- Laid down
- 21 November 1939
- Launched
- 6 September 1941
- Commissioned
- 8 August 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped, 19 November 1955 (1955)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,600 long tons (5,690 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,850 long tons (6,960 t)
- Length
- 156.06 m (512 ft) OA
- Beam
- 15.39 m (50.5 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.7 km/h, 37.1 mph)
- Range
- 1,303 nmi (2,413 km)
- Complement
- 480
- Main gun
- 133 mm (5.2 in)
HMS Argonaut was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 61. Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, UK) laid her keel on 21 November 1939. She entered service on 8 August 1942, having been launched on 6 September 1941.
Her class ran to 16 ships. The class followed the Arethusa-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Fiji-class cruiser.
Displacement was 5,600 long tons standard and 6,850 long tons at full load. She measured 156.1 m (512 ft) long with a beam of 15.4 m (50 ft). Her designed speed was 32.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 480. Her main battery was of 133 mm (5.2 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,121 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 19 November 1955.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Parsons geared turbines
- Four shafts
- Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 62,000 shp (46 MW)
- Armament
- 10 (5×2) 5.25 in (133 mm) dual purpose guns
- 4 × 20 mm (0.8 in) single guns
- 8 (2×4) 2 pdr (40 mm) pom-poms quad guns
- 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) triple Torpedo Tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Magazines: 2 in
- Bulkheads: 1 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Argonaut (61) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Photographer not identified — Originally uploaded to en Wikipedia as en:Image:HMS Argonaut.png by en:User:MiniEntente 17 December 2005 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons