HMS Sirius (82)
Service
- as Sirius6 May 1942 — 19491,215 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Sirius
- Pennant / hull number
- 82
- Builder
- Portsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, UK): Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Greenock, Scotland)
- Laid down
- 6 April 1938
- Launched
- 18 September 1940
- Commissioned
- 6 May 1942
- Decommissioned
- 1949
- Fate
- Scrapped, 15 October 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 Sirius was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 82. Portsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, UK): Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Greenock, Scotland) laid her keel on 6 April 1938. Launched on 18 September 1940, she entered service on 6 May 1942.
Her class ran to 16 ships. The class followed the Arethusa-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Fiji-class cruiser.
Displacement was 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.
She was in commission for 1,215 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1949.
She was broken up for scrap on 15 October 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 geared steam turbines
- Four shafts
- Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 62,000 shp (46 MW)
- Armament
- 10 (5x2) QF 5.25 in guns
- 1 x 4.0 in (102 mm) gun
- 8 (2x4) 0.5 in machine guns
- 12 (3x4) QF 2-pounder (40-mm) pom-poms
- 6 (2x3) 21 in torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 3 inch
- Deck: 1 inch
- Magazines: 2 inch
- Bulkheads: 1 inch.
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Sirius (82) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5263 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons