HMS Mauritius (80)
Fiji-class cruiser light cruiser
Service
- as Mauritius4 January 1940 — 27 March 19652,068 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Mauritius
- Pennant / hull number
- 80
- Namesake
- Colony of Mauritius
- Builder
- Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
- Ordered
- 20 December 1937
- Laid down
- 31 March 1938
- Launched
- 19 July 1939
- Commissioned
- 4 January 1940
- Fate
- Scrapped, 27 March 1965 (1965)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,642 long tons (8,781 t)
- Length
- 169.16 m (555 ft)
- Beam
- 18.9 m (62 ft)
- Draught
- 5.79 m (19 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.7 km/h, 37.1 mph)
- Range
- 6,250 nmi (11,575 km)
- Complement
- 733
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Mauritius was a Fiji-class cruiser light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 80. She was named for Colony of Mauritius. Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom laid her keel on 31 March 1938. Launched on 19 July 1939, she entered service on 4 January 1940.
She displaced 8,642 long tons. She measured 169.2 m (555 ft) long with a beam of 18.9 m (62 ft). Her designed speed was 32.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 733.
Her main battery was twelve 152 mm (6 in) guns in four triple mountings. She carried two aircraft. Her machinery developed 80,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 2,068 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 27 March 1965.
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 turbine sets
- Power
- 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 80000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × triple 6 in (152 mm) guns
- 4 × twin 4 in (102 mm) DP guns
- 2 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in AA machine guns
- 2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Engine and boiler rooms: 3.25 in
- Decks: 2 - 3.5 in
- Magazines: 2 - 3.5 in
- Gun turrets: 1 - 2 in
- Aircraft
- 2 × seaplanes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Mauritius (80) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Fotoalbums voormalig Instituut voor Maritieme Historie — https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/foto-s/detail/68332ff6-246a-4e2c-9f94-b46938f10051/media/959681f1-1b07-9ae1-33c2-95bb501fc2c3 — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons