HMS Charybdis (88)
Service
- as Charybdis? — 23 October 19431,513 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Charybdis
- Pennant / hull number
- 88
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Laid down
- 9 November 1939
- Launched
- 17 September 1940
- Fate
- Sunk during the Battle of Sept-Îles, 23 October 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,600 long tons (5,690 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,975 long tons (7,087 t)
- Length
- 156.06 m (512 ft) OA
- Beam
- 15.24 m (50 ft)
- Draught
- 4.36 m (14.3 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.7 km/h, 37.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,685 nmi (6,825 km)
- Complement
- 480
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Charybdis was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 88. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead on 9 November 1939. She was launched on 17 September 1940.
Her class ran to 16 ships. The class followed the Arethusa-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Fiji-class cruiser.
She displaced 5,600 long tons standard and 6,975 long tons at full load. 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 480.
Her main battery was eight 114 mm (4.5 in) guns. Her machinery developed 62,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 1,513 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 23 October 1943, at 48°59′N 3°39′W. 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
- 62,000 shp (46 MW)
- Armament
- 8 × 4.5 in DP dual guns
- 1 × 4 in (102 mm) starshell gun
- 8 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon single guns
- 2 × 2-pounder (40 mm) 'pom-poms' single guns
- 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 3 inch
- Deck: 1 inch
- Magazines: 2 inch
- Bulkheads: 1 inch
- Turrets: ½ inch
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Charybdis (88) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5201 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons