HMS Naiad (93)
Service
- as Naiad24 July 1940 — 11 March 1942595 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Naiad
- Pennant / hull number
- 93
- Namesake
- Naiad
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company Hebburn-on-Tyne
- Laid down
- 26 August 1937
- Launched
- 3 February 1939
- Commissioned
- 24 July 1940
- Fate
- Sunk, 11 March 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
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
- 3,685 nmi (6,825 km)
- Main gun
- 133 mm (5.2 in)
HMS Naiad was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 93. The ship was named after Naiad. Hawthorn Leslie and Company Hebburn-on-Tyne laid her keel on 26 August 1937. She entered service on 24 July 1940, having been launched on 3 February 1939.
16 ships of the class were built. 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. Her main battery was of 133 mm (5.2 in) calibre.
62,000 shp drove four shafts.
She was in commission for 595 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 11 March 1942, at 32°01′N 26°20′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
- 4 shafts; 4 geared steam turbines
- Power
- Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 62,000 shp (46 MW)
- Armament
- 8 x QF 5.25 in dual guns
- 1 x 4.0 in (102 mm) gun
- 2 x 0.5 in MG quadruple guns
- 3 x 2-pounder 40 mm pom-poms quad guns
- 2 x 21 inch (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 3 inch
- Deck: 1 inch
- Magazines: 2 inch
- Bulkheads: 1 inch.
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Naiad (93) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Coote, R G G (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/17/718/large_000000.jpg This photograph A 447 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons