HMS Euryalus (42)
Service
- as Euryalus30 June 1941 — 19 September 19541,527 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Euryalus
- Pennant / hull number
- 42
- Builder
- Chatham Dockyard
- Laid down
- 21 October 1937
- Launched
- 6 June 1939
- Commissioned
- 30 June 1941
- Decommissioned
- 19 September 1954
- Fate
- Scrapped, 18 July 1959 (1959)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,600 long tons (5,690 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,850 long tons (6,960 t)
- Length
- 156.06 m (512 ft) OA
- Beam
- 15.39 m (50.5 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.7 km/h, 37.1 mph)
- Range
- 1,303 nmi (2,413 km)
- Complement
- 480
- Main gun
- 133 mm (5.2 in)
HMS Euryalus was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 42. Her keel was laid at Chatham Dockyard on 21 October 1937. She entered service on 30 June 1941, having been launched on 6 June 1939.
She was one of 16 ships of her class. The class followed the Arethusa-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Fiji-class cruiser.
She displaced 5,600 long tons standard and 6,850 long tons at full load. She measured 156.1 m (512 ft) long with a beam of 15.4 m (50 ft). Her designed speed was 32.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 480.
Her main battery was ten 133 mm (5.2 in) guns in five twin mountings.
She was in commission for 1,527 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 19 September 1954.
She was broken up for scrap on 18 July 1959.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Parsons geared turbines
- Four shafts
- Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 62000 shp
- Armament
- 5 × twin 5.25 in guns
- 1 × 4 in gun
- 2 × quad 0.5 in machine guns
- 3 × quad 2-pounder (40 mm) pom-pom guns
- 2 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes.
- Armour
- Belt: 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Magazines: 2 in
- Bulkheads: 1 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Euryalus (42) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5242 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons