HMS Colombo
Service
- as HMS Colombo18 June 1919 — 22 January 19482,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Colombo
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
- Laid down
- 8 December 1917
- Launched
- 18 December 1918
- Commissioned
- 18 June 1919
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 22 January 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 4,290 long tons (4,359 t)
- Length
- 137.46 m (451 ft) OA
- Beam
- 13.11 m (43 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 432
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Colombo was a C-class cruiser light cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company laid her keel on 8 December 1917. She entered service on 18 June 1919, having been launched on 18 December 1918.
40 ships of the class were built. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
Displacement was 4,290 long tons. She measured 137.5 m (451 ft) long with a beam of 13.1 m (43 ft). Her designed speed was 29 knots, and she carried a complement of 432. 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 broken up for scrap on 22 January 1948.
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 Cardiff (D58)
- HMS Carlisle (D67)
- HMS Carron (R30)
- HMS Carysfort (R25)
- HMS Cassandra (R62)
- HMS Cavalier
- HMS Cavendish (R15)
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Chaplet
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Colombo on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 8184 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons