HMS Spartan (95)
Service
- as Spartan12 July 1943 — 29 January 1944200 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Spartan
- Pennant / hull number
- 95
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
- Laid down
- 21 December 1939
- Launched
- 27 August 1942
- Commissioned
- 12 July 1943
- Fate
- Sunk 29 January 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,950 long tons (6,045 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 7,200 long tons (7,316 t)
- Length
- 156.06 m (512 ft) OA
- Beam
- 15.24 m (50 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
- 530
- Main gun
- 133 mm (5.2 in)
HMS Spartan was a Dido-class cruiser light cruiser, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 95. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 21 December 1939. She entered service on 12 July 1943, having been launched on 27 August 1942.
Her class ran to 16 ships. The class followed the Arethusa-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Fiji-class cruiser.
Displacement was 5,950 long tons standard and 7,200 long tons at full load. She measured 156.1 m (512 ft) long with a beam of 15.2 m (50 ft). Her designed speed was 32.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 530. Her main battery was of 133 mm (5.2 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 62,000 shp.
She was in commission for 200 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 29 January 1944, at 41°26′N 12°41′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 × Parsons geared turbines
- 4 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 4 × shafts
- Power
- 62000 shp
- Armament
- 8 × QF 5.25 in dual purpose guns (4x2)
- 12 × 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns (3x4)
- 12 × 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons (6x2)
- 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2x3)
- Armour
- Belt: 3 in
- Deck: 1 in
- Magazines: 2 in
- Bulkheads: 1 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Spartan (95) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3094 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) Transferred from en.wikipedia ; transferred to Commons by User:Oxyman using CommonsHelper . Original uploader was MiniEntente at en.wikipedia — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons