HMS Bermuda (52)
Fiji-class cruiser light cruiser
Service
- as Bermuda21 August 1942 — 19621,108 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Bermuda
- Pennant / hull number
- 52
- Namesake
- Bermuda
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Laid down
- 30 November 1939
- Launched
- 11 September 1941
- Commissioned
- 21 August 1942
- Decommissioned
- 1962
- Fate
- Scrapped, 26 August 1965 (1965)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,631 long tons (8,770 t)
- Length
- 169.16 m (555 ft)
- Beam
- 18.9 m (62 ft)
- Draught
- 5.79 m (19 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.7 km/h, 37.1 mph)
- Range
- 6,250 nmi (11,575 km)
- Complement
- 733
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Bermuda was a Fiji-class cruiser light cruiser, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 52. She was named for Bermuda. John Brown & Company, Clydebank laid her keel on 30 November 1939. Launched on 11 September 1941, she entered service on 21 August 1942.
Displacement was 8,631 long tons. She measured 169.2 m (555 ft) long with a beam of 18.9 m (62 ft). Her designed speed was 32.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 733.
Her main battery was twelve 152 mm (6 in) guns in four triple mountings. She carried two aircraft. Her machinery developed 80,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 1,108 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1962.
She was broken up for scrap on 26 August 1965.
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 turbine sets
- Power
- 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 80000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × triple 6 in (152 mm) guns
- 4 × twin 4 in (102 mm) DP guns
- 2 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 10 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
- 2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Engine and boiler rooms: 3.25 in
- Decks: 2 - 3.5 in
- Magazines: 2 - 3.5 in
- Gun turrets: 1 - 2 in
- Aircraft
- 2 × seaplanes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Bermuda (52) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 1808 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons