HMS Enterprise (D52)
Emerald-class cruiser light cruiser
Service
- as Enterprise7 April 1926 — 13 January 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Enterprise
- Pennant / hull number
- D52
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, (Clydebank, Scotland)
- Laid down
- 28 June 1918
- Launched
- 23 December 1919
- Commissioned
- 7 April 1926
- Decommissioned
- 13 January 1946
- Fate
- Scrapped
Handed over to BISCO for scrapping 11 April 1946
Arrived at Cashmore's yard at Newport, Wales on 21 April 1946 for breaking up - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,580 long tons (7,702 t)
- Length
- 173.74 m (570 ft)
- Beam
- 16.46 m (54 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Range
- 8,000 nmi (14,816 km)
- Complement
- 572
HMS Enterprise was a Emerald-class cruiser light cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D52. John Brown & Company, (Clydebank, Scotland) laid her keel on 28 June 1918. She entered service on 7 April 1926, having been launched on 23 December 1919.
She displaced 7,580 long tons. She measured 173.7 m (570 ft) long with a beam of 16.5 m (54 ft). Her designed speed was 33 knots, and she carried a complement of 572.
She carried one aircraft. Her machinery developed 80,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 13 January 1946.
She was broken up for scrap.
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; 4 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 8 × water-tube boilers
- 80000 shp
- Armament
- 7 × BL 6-inch Mk XII guns
- 3 × QF 4-inch AA guns
- 16 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (4×4)
- Armour
- Belt: 3 in (amidships); 1.5 - 2.5 in (bow); 2 in (stern)
- Deck: 1 in (upper, amidships); 1 in (over rudder)
- Aircraft
- 1 × Seafox
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Enterprise (D52) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (FOXHILL) — This photograph FL 5389 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons