HMS Despatch (D30)
Service
- as HMS Despatch2 June 1922 — 5 April 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Despatch
- Pennant / hull number
- D30
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
- Ordered
- March 1918
- Laid down
- 8 July 1918
- Launched
- 24 September 1919
- Commissioned
- 2 June 1922
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 5 April 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 4,970 long tons (5,050 t)
- Length
- 143.87 m (472 ft) OA
- Beam
- 14.02 m (46 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 460
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Despatch was a Danae-class cruiser light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D30. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan laid her keel on 8 July 1918. She entered service on 2 June 1922, having been launched on 24 September 1919.
Nine ships of the class were built. The class followed the C-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Emerald-class cruiser.
She displaced 4,970 long tons. She measured 143.9 m (472 ft) long with a beam of 14.0 m (46 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 broken up for scrap on 5 April 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
- 6 × single BL 6 in Mk XII guns
- 2 × single QF 4 in Mk V anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × single QF 2-pounder AA guns
- 4 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 1.25 - 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Despatch (D30) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 60911 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons