HMS Nigeria
Fiji-class cruiser light cruiser
Service
- as Nigeria23 September 1940 — 29 August 19571,805 days of the war
- as Mysore29 August 1957 — 20 August 1985
- Name
- HMS Nigeria
- Pennant / hull number
- C60
- Namesake
- British Nigeria
- Builder
- Vickers Armstrongs, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Ordered
- 20 December 1937
- Laid down
- 8 February 1938
- Launched
- 18 July 1939
- Commissioned
- 23 September 1940
- Decommissioned
- 20 August 1985
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1986 (1986)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,530 long tons (8,667 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 Nigeria was a Fiji-class cruiser light cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number C60. The ship was named after British Nigeria. Her keel was laid at Vickers Armstrongs, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne on 8 February 1938. Launched on 18 July 1939, she entered service on 23 September 1940.
She displaced 8,530 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 served with the Royal Navy as Nigeria until 29 August 1957. She then passed to the Royal Indian Navy, serving as Mysore from 29 August 1957. She was in commission for 1,805 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 20 August 1985.
She was broken up for scrap in 1986.
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 Vickers 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 Nigeria on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 16793 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons