HMS Delhi (D47)
Service
- as HMS DelhiJune 1919 — 22 January 19482,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Delhi
- Pennant / hull number
- D47
- Builder
- Armstrong Whitworth
- Ordered
- July 1917
- Laid down
- 29 October 1917
- Launched
- 23 August 1918
- Commissioned
- June 1919
- Fate
- 22 January 1948 - Sold for scrap (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 4,927 long tons (5,006 t)
- Length
- 135.64 m (445 ft) PP
- Beam
- 14.02 m (46 ft)
- Draught
- 4.39 m (14.4 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Range
- 6,700 nmi (12,408 km)
- Complement
- 450
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Delhi was a Danae-class cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D47. Her keel was laid at Armstrong Whitworth on 29 October 1917. Launched on 23 August 1918, she entered service in June 1919.
Nine ships of the class were built. The class followed the C-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Emerald-class cruiser.
Displacement was 4,927 long tons. She measured 135.6 m (445 ft) long with a beam of 14.0 m (46 ft). Her designed speed was 29 knots, and she carried a complement of 450.
Her main battery was eight 40 mm (1.6 in) guns.
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 × Brown Curtis geared steam turbines = 40000 shp
- Armament
- (As built)
- 6 × BL 6-inch 45 Calibre Mark XII guns
- 2 × QF 3-inch 45 Calibre HA
- 2 × QF 2-pdr 'Pom-pom' AA
- (As refitted in 1941)
- 5 × 5-inch 38-calibre DP Mark 12 guns in Mounting Mark 30.
- 8 × 40 mm Bofors AA (2 quadruple mounts)
- 12 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA
- Armour
- Belt Armour: 1.5 - 3 in
- Deck Armour: 1 in
- Conning Tower: 3 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Delhi (D47) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 11132 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons