HMS Emerald (D66)
Emerald-class cruiser light cruiser
Service
- as Emerald14 January 1926 — 9 June 19482,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Emerald
- Pennant / hull number
- D66
- Builder
- Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne
- Laid down
- 23 September 1918
- Launched
- 19 May 1920
- Commissioned
- 14 January 1926
- Decommissioned
- 9 June 1948
- Fate
- Sunk as a target in 24 October 1947, scrapped in July 5 1948 (1947)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,580 long tons (7,702 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 9,435 long tons (9,586 t)
- Length
- 173.74 m (570 ft)
- Beam
- 16.61 m (54.5 ft)
- Draught
- 5.03 m (16.5 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Range
- 1,350 nmi (2,500 km)
- Complement
- 572
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Emerald was a Emerald-class cruiser light cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D66. Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne laid her keel on 23 September 1918. She entered service on 14 January 1926, having been launched on 19 May 1920.
Displacement was 7,580 long tons standard and 9,435 long tons at full load. She measured 173.7 m (570 ft) long with a beam of 16.6 m (54 ft). Her designed speed was 33 knots, and she carried a complement of 572.
Her main battery was seven 152 mm (6 in) guns. 80,000 shp drove four shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 9 June 1948.
She was expended as a target on 24 October 1947. 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
- 4 shafts; geared steam turbines
- Power
- Eight boilers
- 80000 shp
- Armament
- Original configuration:
- 7 × single BL 6 in Mk XII guns
- 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm) "pom-pom" guns
- 3 × single 4 in anti-aircraft guns
- 4 × 21 in quadruple torpedo tubes.
- August 1939:
- 7 × 6 in (152 mm) single guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in MG guns
- 4 × 3 pdr (47 mm) pom-pom single guns
- 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) quadruples torpedo tubes.
- April 1943:
- 5 × 6 in (152 mm) single guns
- 2 × 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms quad guns
- 4 × 3 pdr (47 mm) pom-pom single guns
- 6 × 20 mm (0.8 in) dual power-operated guns
- 4 × 21 in (533 mm) quadruples torpedo tubes.
- April 1944:
- 5 × 6 in (152 mm) single guns
- 2 × 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms quad guns
- 4 × 3 pdr (47 mm) pom-pom single guns
- 6 × 20 mm (0.8 in) single guns
- 6 × 20 mm (0.8 in) dual power-operated guns
- 4 × 21 in (533 mm) quadruples torpedo tubes.
- Armour
- Original configuration
- Side: 3 in (amidships)
- Side: 2.5 - 1.5 in (bow)
- Side: 2 in (stern)
- Deck: 1 in
- Aircraft
- One aircraft with one catapult
- Catapult later removed. A Fairey Seafox was carried in the early days of World War II
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Emerald (D66) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Official photographer — This photograph Q 45940 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 2711-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons