HMS York (90)
Service
- as York1 May 1930 — 22 May 1941629 days of the war
- Name
- HMS York
- Pennant / hull number
- 90
- Builder
- Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow
- Ordered
- 21 October 1926
- Laid down
- 16 May 1927
- Launched
- 17 July 1928
- Commissioned
- 1 May 1930
- Fate
- Sunk, 22 May 1941
Scrapped beginning 3 March 1952 (1941) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,250 long tons (8,382 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 10,620 long tons (10,790 t)
- Length
- 175.26 m (575 ft)
- Beam
- 17.37 m (57 ft)
- Draught
- 6.1 m (20 ft)
- Speed
- 32.3 knots (59.7 km/h, 37.1 mph)
- Range
- 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
- Complement
- 628
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
HMS York was a York-class cruiser heavy cruiser, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 90. Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow laid her keel on 16 May 1927. She entered service on 1 May 1930, having been launched on 17 July 1928.
Four ships of the class were built. The class followed the Wyoming-class battleship and was succeeded by the Nevada-class battleship.
Displacement was 8,250 long tons standard and 10,620 long tons at full load. She measured 175.3 m (575 ft) long with a beam of 17.4 m (57 ft). Her designed speed was 32.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 628.
Her main battery was six 203 mm (8 in) guns in three twin mountings. Her machinery developed 80,000 shp through four shafts.
She was in commission for 629 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 22 May 1941.
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, geared steam turbines
- Power
- 8 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 80000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × twin 8 in (203 mm) guns
- 4 × single 4 in AA guns
- 2 × single 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Belt: 3 in
- Decks: 1.5 in
- Barbettes: 1 in
- Turrets: 1 in
- Bulkheads: 3.5 in
- Magazines: 3 - 4.375 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS York (90) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4185 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons