HMS Curlew (D42)
Service
- as HMS Curlew14 December 1917 — 26 May 1940268 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Curlew
- Pennant / hull number
- D42
- Builder
- Vickers Limited, Barrow in Furness
- Laid down
- 21 August 1916
- Launched
- 5 July 1917
- Commissioned
- 14 December 1917
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack, 26 May 1940
By aircraft (1940) - Status
- Wreck
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 Curlew was a C-class cruiser light cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D42. Vickers Limited, Barrow in Furness laid her keel on 21 August 1916. She entered service on 14 December 1917, having been launched on 5 July 1917.
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 4,190 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 268 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 26 May 1940 by aircraft, at 68°34′N 16°33′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
- 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 Curlew (D42) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Photographer not identified. "Official photograph". — This photograph Q 18679 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-74) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons