HMS Scylla (98)
Service
- as Scylla12 June 1942 — 23 June 1944742 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Scylla
- Pennant / hull number
- 98
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Greenock, Scotland)
- Laid down
- 19 April 1939
- Launched
- 24 July 1940
- Commissioned
- 12 June 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped, 4 May 1950. (1950)
- 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
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Scylla was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 98. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Greenock, Scotland) on 19 April 1939. Launched on 24 July 1940, she entered service on 12 June 1942.
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 eight 114 mm (4.5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 742 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 4 May 1950.
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 geared steam turbines
- Four shafts
- Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 62,000 shp (46 MW)
- Armament
- 8 × 4.5 in (113 mm) dual guns
- 1 × 4.0 in (102 mm) gun
- 2 × 0.5 in MG quadruple guns
- 3 × 2-pounder 40 mm pom-poms quad guns
- 2 × 21 in (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 Scylla (98) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 2932 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons