HMS Hawkins
Hawkins-class cruiser heavy cruiser
Service
- as Hawkins23 July 1919 — May 19452,096 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Hawkins
- Pennant / hull number
- I86
- Namesake
- Admiral Sir John Hawkins
- Builder
- Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered
- December 1915
- Laid down
- 3 June 1916
- Launched
- 1 October 1917
- Commissioned
- 23 July 1919
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 26 August 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 9,800 long tons (9,957 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 12,110 long tons (12,304 t)
- Length
- 184.4 m (605 ft) OA
- Beam
- 19.81 m (65 ft)
- Draught
- 5.79 m (19 ft)
- Speed
- 30 knots (55.6 km/h, 34.5 mph)
- Range
- 5,640 nmi (10,445 km)
- Complement
- 712
- Main gun
- 190 mm (7.5 in)
HMS Hawkins was a Hawkins-class cruiser heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number I86. She was named for Admiral Sir John Hawkins. Her keel was laid at Chatham Dockyard on 3 June 1916. She entered service on 23 July 1919, having been launched on 1 October 1917.
She displaced 9,800 long tons standard and 12,110 long tons at full load. She measured 184.4 m (605 ft) long with a beam of 19.8 m (65 ft). Her designed speed was 30 knots, and she carried a complement of 712.
Her main battery was seven 190 mm (7.5 in) guns. Her machinery developed 60,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,096 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 26 August 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 4 × shafts; 4 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 12 × Yarrow boilers
- 60000 shp
- Armament
- 7 × single 7.5 in guns
- 6 × single 3 in low-angle guns
- 4 × single 3 in AA guns
- 2 × single 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 1.5 - 3 in
- Deck: 1 - 1.5 in
- Gun shields: 1 in
May 1942
- Speed
- 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h, 33.9 mph)
- Range
- 6,768 nmi (12,534 km)
- Main gun
- 191 mm (7.5 in)
- Power
- 8 × Yarrow boilers
- 55000 shp
- Armament
- 7 × single 7.5 in (191 mm) guns
- 4 × single 4 in AA guns
- 2 × quadruple, 2 × single 2-pdr AA guns
- 7 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Hawkins on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 10153 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons