HMS Durban
Service
- as HMS Durban1 November 1921 — 9 June 19441,743 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Durban
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Ordered
- September 1917
- Laid down
- January 1918
- Launched
- 29 May 1919
- Commissioned
- 1 November 1921
- Fate
- Sunk as breakwater, 9 June 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 4,650 long tons (4,725 t)
- Length
- 144.02 m (472.5 ft)
- Beam
- 14.17 m (46.5 ft)
- Draught
- 4.42 m (14.5 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Range
- 2,300 nmi (4,260 km)
- Complement
- 350
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Durban was a Danae-class cruiser light cruiser built for the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock in January 1918. Launched on 29 May 1919, she entered service on 1 November 1921.
Her class ran to nine ships. The class followed the C-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Emerald-class cruiser.
Displacement was 4,650 long tons. She measured 144.0 m (473 ft) long with a beam of 14.2 m (46 ft). Her designed speed was 29 knots, and she carried a complement of 350. Her main battery was of 152 mm (6.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,743 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 9 June 1944, at 49°21′N 0°16′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
- Six Yarrow-type water-tube boilers
- Parsons geared steam turbines
- Two shafts
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 1918: six BL 6 in L/45 Mark XII guns on single mountings CP Mark XIV
- two QF 3-inch (76.2 mm) Mk II AA guns
- two QF 2-pounder (40-mm) "Pom-pom" AA guns
- twelve 21 in torpedo tubes (4 triple launchers)
- Armour
- 3-inch side (amidships)
- 2, 1¾, 1½ side (bow and stern)
- 1 inch upper decks (amidships)
- 1 inch deck over rudder
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Durban on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Portsmouth Dockyard Constructive Department — IWMCollections IWM Photo No.: FL 8998 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons