HMS Bonaventure (31)
Service
- as Bonaventure24 May 1940 — 31 March 1941308 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Bonaventure
- Pennant / hull number
- 31
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland
- Laid down
- 30 August 1937
- Launched
- 19 April 1939
- Commissioned
- 24 May 1940
- Fate
- Torpedoed by the Italian submarine Ambra, 31 March 1941
By submarine (1941) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,530 long tons (5,619 t)
- Length
- 156.06 m (512 ft) OA
- Beam
- 15.24 m (50 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.7 km/h, 37.1 mph)
- Range
- 4,240 nmi (7,852 km)
- Complement
- 487
- Main gun
- 133 mm (5.2 in)
HMS Bonaventure was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 31. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland on 30 August 1937. She entered service on 24 May 1940, having been launched on 19 April 1939.
16 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Arethusa-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Fiji-class cruiser.
She displaced 5,530 long tons. She measured 156.1 m (512 ft) long with a beam of 15.2 m (50 ft). Her designed speed was 32.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 487.
Her main battery was eight 133 mm (5.2 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 62,000 shp.
She was in commission for 308 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 31 March 1941 by submarine, at 33°20′N 26°35′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 × shafts; 4 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 4 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 62000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 5.25 in DP guns
- 1 × single 4 in star shell gun
- 2 × quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Magazines: 2 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Bonaventure (31) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Beadell, S J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 1733 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons