HMS Birmingham (C19)
Town-class cruiser (1936) light cruiser
Service
- as Birmingham18 November 1937 — 3 December 19592,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Birmingham
- Pennant / hull number
- C19
- Builder
- HM Dockyard, Devonport
- Laid down
- 18 July 1935
- Launched
- 1 September 1936
- Commissioned
- 18 November 1937
- Fate
- Broken up in 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 9,100 long tons (9,246 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 11,350 long tons (11,532 t)
- Length
- 180.14 m (591 ft) OA
- Beam
- 18.59 m (61 ft)
- Draught
- 6.4 m (21 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 748
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Birmingham was a Town-class cruiser (1936) light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number C19. Her keel was laid at HM Dockyard, Devonport on 18 July 1935. Launched on 1 September 1936, she entered service on 18 November 1937.
Displacement was 9,100 long tons standard and 11,350 long tons at full load. She measured 180.1 m (591 ft) long with a beam of 18.6 m (61 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 748.
Her main battery was twelve 152 mm (6 in) guns. Her machinery developed 75,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1960.
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
- Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 75000 shp
- Armament
- 12 × 6 in Mk XXIII guns [triple mounts]
- 8 × QF 4 in Mk XVI guns [double mounts]
- 4 × 3-pounder
- 8 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) AA guns [quadruple mounts]
- Torpedo tubes: 6 × 21 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Birmingham (C19) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 2080 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons