HMS Sussex (96)
Service
- as HMS Sussex19 March 1929 — 3 January 19502,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Sussex
- Pennant / hull number
- 96
- Namesake
- Sussex
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn-on-Tyne
- Laid down
- 1 February 1927
- Launched
- 22 February 1928
- Commissioned
- 19 March 1929
- Decommissioned
- 3 January 1950
- Fate
- Scrapping started on 23 February 1950 at Arnott Young, Dalmuir. (1950)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 9,750 long tons (9,906 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 13,315 long tons (13,529 t)
- Length
- 192.94 m (633 ft)
- Beam
- 20.12 m (66 ft)
- Draught
- 6.4 m (21 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Range
- 2,546 nmi (4,715 km)
- Complement
- 650
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
HMS Sussex was a County-class cruiser heavy cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 96. She was named for Sussex. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn-on-Tyne on 1 February 1927. She entered service on 19 March 1929, having been launched on 22 February 1928.
She was one of 13 ships of her class. The class followed the Hawkins-class cruiser and was succeeded by the York-class cruiser.
Displacement was 9,750 long tons standard and 13,315 long tons at full load. She measured 192.9 m (633 ft) long with a beam of 20.1 m (66 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 650.
Her main battery was eight 203 mm (8 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 3 January 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
- Eight Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Four shaft Parsons geared turbines
- 80000 shp
- Armament
- Original configuration:
- 8 × 8 in (203 mm) dual guns
- 4 × 4 in (102 mm) single AA guns
- 4 × 2 pdr (40 mm) single pom-poms
- 2 × 2-pdr (40 mm) quad pom-poms
- 2 × 0.5 in MG quadruple Vickers machine gun mount
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes.
- Armour
- 1 to 4 in magazine box protection
- 1.375 in deck
- 1 in side-plating, turrets and bulkheads
- 4 internal boiler room sides (added 1936–1940).
- Aircraft
- One aircraft, later three. One catapult.
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Sussex (96) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5880 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons