HMS Phoebe (43)
Service
- as Phoebe27 September 1940 — 14 March 19531,801 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Phoebe
- Pennant / hull number
- 43
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Govan, Scotland)
- Laid down
- 2 September 1937
- Launched
- 25 March 1939
- Commissioned
- 27 September 1940
- Decommissioned
- 14 March 1953
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1 August 1956 (1956)
- Status
- Scrapped
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
- 1,303 nmi (2,413 km)
- Complement
- 480
- Main gun
- 133 mm (5.2 in)
HMS Phoebe was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 43. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Govan, Scotland) laid her keel on 2 September 1937. She entered service on 27 September 1940, having been launched on 25 March 1939.
She was one of 16 ships of her class. 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, and she carried a complement of 480. Her main battery was of 133 mm (5.2 in) calibre.
62,000 shp drove four shafts.
She was in commission for 1,801 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 14 March 1953.
She was broken up for scrap on 1 August 1956.
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 (4×2) 5.25 inch guns
- 1 × 4.0 in (102 mm) gun
- 8 (2×4) 0.5 inch machine guns
- 12 (3×4) 2-pounder (40 mm) anti-aircraft guns
- 6 (2×3) 21 inch torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Magazines: 2 in
- Bulkheads: 1 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Phoebe (43) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18834/large.jpg This photograph FL 5271 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons