HMS Galatea (71)
Arethusa-class cruiser light cruiser
Service
- as HMS Galatea14 August 1935 — 14 December 1941835 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Galatea
- Pennant / hull number
- 71
- Namesake
- Galatea
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Laid down
- 2 June 1933
- Launched
- 9 August 1934
- Commissioned
- 14 August 1935
- Fate
- Sunk by U-557 off Alexandria on 14 December 1941 (1941)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,220 long tons (5,304 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,665 long tons (6,772 t)
- Length
- 154.23 m (506 ft)
- Beam
- 15.54 m (51 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 500
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Galatea was a Arethusa-class cruiser light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 71. She was named for Galatea. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock on 2 June 1933. She entered service on 14 August 1935, having been launched on 9 August 1934.
She displaced 5,220 long tons standard and 6,665 long tons at full load. She measured 154.2 m (506 ft) long with a beam of 15.5 m (51 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 500.
Her main battery was three 152 mm (6 in) guns.
She was in commission for 835 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 14 December 1941, at 31°17′N 29°13′E. 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
- Four Parsons geared steam turbines
- Four Admiralty 3-drum oil-fired boilers
- Four shafts
- 64,000 shp
- Armament
- Original configuration:
- 6 × BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval guns
- 4 x 4-inch (102 mm) Mk V single AA guns
- 2 x 0.5 in quadruple machine guns
- 2 x 21 inch (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes
- October 1940 – December 1941 configuration:
- 3 x 6 in (152 mm) dual guns
- 4 x 4 in (102 mm) dual AA guns
- 2 x 0.5 in MG quadruple guns
- 8 x 20 mm Oerlikon (0.8 in) single guns
- 2 x 2-pounder(40 mm) "pom-pom" quad guns
- 2 x 21 in (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes.
- Armour
- Original configuration:
- 1 to 3 inches – magazine protection
- 2.25 inches – belt
- 1 inch – deck, turrets and bulkheads
- Aircraft
- One aircraft (later removed).
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Galatea (71) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Abrahams And Sons — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons