HMS Cardiff (D58)
Service
- as Cardiff? — 3 September 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Cardiff
- Pennant / hull number
- D58
- Namesake
- Cardiff
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
- Ordered
- April 1915
- Laid down
- 22 July 1916
- Launched
- 12 April 1917
- Decommissioned
- 3 September 1945
- Fate
- Broken up from 18 March 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 4,190 long tons (4,257 t)
- Length
- 137.16 m (450 ft) OA
- Beam
- 13.11 m (43 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 460
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Cardiff was a C-class cruiser light cruiser, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D58. The ship was named after Cardiff. Her keel was laid at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan on 22 July 1916. She was launched on 12 April 1917.
She was one of 40 ships of her class. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
She displaced 4,190 long tons. She measured 137.2 m (450 ft) long with a beam of 13.1 m (43 ft). Her designed speed was 29 knots, and she carried a complement of 460. Her main battery was of 152 mm (6.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 3 September 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 18 March 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 40000 shp
- 6 × Yarrow boilers
- Armament
- 5 × single BL 6 in Mk XII guns
- 2 × single QF 3 in 20-cwt anti-aircraft guns
- 4 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 1.25 - 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Conning tower: 3 in
Sister ships
- HMCS Assiniboine (I18)
- HMCS Crescent
- HMCS Fraser (H48)
- HMCS Ottawa (H60)
- HMCS Restigouche (H00)
- HMCS St. Laurent (H83)
- HMS Caesar (R07)
- HMS Cairo
- HMS Calcutta (D82)
- HMS Caledon (D53)
- HMS Calypso (D61)
- HMS Cambrian (R85)
- HMS Capetown
- HMS Caprice
- HMS Caradoc (D60)
- HMS Carlisle (D67)
- HMS Carron (R30)
- HMS Carysfort (R25)
- HMS Cassandra (R62)
- HMS Cavalier
- HMS Cavendish (R15)
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Chaplet
- HMS Charity (R29)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Cardiff (D58) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7510 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons