As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919
1916-18 British Light Cruisers
("D Class,")
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(" D CLASS," THIRD GROUP - ?? SHIPS.)
DESPATCH (24th Sept., 1919), DIOMEDE (29th April, 1919).- For others see Cancelled Ships.
Length p.p. ?? o.a. ?? feet; Beam ?? feet. Draught Mean ?? max. ??
("D CLASS," SECOND GROUP-3 SHIPS.)
DELHI (23rd Aug., 1918), DUNEDIN (1919), DURBAN (19th May, 1919).
Length o.a. 472.5 feet; p.p. 445 feet; Beam, 46.5 feet. Draught mean 14 feet. Max. 16.25
(D CLASS," FIRST CROUP-3 SHIPS.)
DANAE (26th Jan., 1918), DAUNTLESS (10th April, 1918), DRAGON (29th Dec., 1917).
DANAE Photo, Seward, Weymouth.
- Length p.p. 445 feet, o.a. 471 Beam 46 feet Draught max. 16.5, Mean 14 .25
- Displacement (of all above), 4,650 tons.
- Complement, about 350.
- Guns: 6 - 6 inch, 50 cal. (Dir. Con.) ; 2 - 3 inch A.A. ; 4 - 3 pdr. ; 2 - 2 pdr. pom-pom ; 1 M.G.
- Torpedo Tubes (21 inch): 12 in 4 triple deck mountings.
- Armour (H.T.): 3" Side (amidships) ; 2", 1.75", 1.5" Side (bow and stern) ; 1" Upper decks (amids.) ; 1" Deck over rudder.
- Machinery: Turbines (all-geared). Brown-Curtis or Parsons types. Designed S.H.P. 40,000 = 29 kts. 2 screws. Boilers: Yarrow (small tube).
- Oil fuel only : normal, 300 tons : maximum, 1050 tons.
|
Name |
Builder |
Machinery |
Ordered |
Began |
Completed |
Trials
H.P. Kts. |
Turbines |
|
Despatch |
Fairfield* |
Fairfield |
Mar., 1918 |
1918 |
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|
|
|
Diomede |
Vickers* |
Vickers |
Mar., 1918 |
1918 |
|
|
|
|
Delhi |
Armstrong |
|
Sept. 1917 |
29 Oct., '17 |
June, 1919 |
41,000=28.5 † |
|
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Dunedin |
Armstrong |
|
Sept., 1917 |
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|
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Durban |
Scotts* |
Scotts |
Sept. 1917 |
|
|
|
Brown-Curtis |
|
Danae |
Armstrong |
Wallsend |
Sept. 1916 |
Dec., 1916 |
July, 1918 |
40,363 = |
|
|
Dauntless |
Palmer |
|
Sept. 1916 |
|
Dec., 1918 |
|
|
|
Dragon |
Scott |
Scott |
Sept. 1916 |
Jan., 1917 |
Aug., 1918 |
40,035 = |
Brown-Curtis |
Towed to following Dockyards for completion : Diomede to Portsmouth, Despatch to Chatham, Durban to Devonport.
† With PVs. out, and on deep draught.
DRAGON, DAUNTLESS: Hangar forward, as Carlisle. Bows as Danae above. [Ed. note: Regret no photo available]
DELHI.: No hangar, " trawler " bows, high bridges revolving launching platform for aeroplane abaft fourth 6-inch gun.
General Votes: Emergency War Programme ships. Note that first three were ordered before Carlisle class. Design generally as Ceres class, but lengthened about 20 feet, to add a sixth 6-inch between foremast and first funnel; also triple tubes. Completion of Despatch and Diomede may be indefinitely postponed.
Cancelled Ships: (Third Group). Daedalus (Armstrong), Daring (Beardmore), Desperate ( -----), Dryad (Vickers). All ordered March. 1918 with Diomede and Despatch. Cancelled 1918. Possible that Desperate may proceed, so as to complete three ships in third group, as in other two groups. Contractor for Desperate not known ; may be Palmer.
Ahead: 2 - 6 inch ; Broadside: 6 - 6 inch, 6 - 21 inch tubes ; Astern: 2 - 6 inch
Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919 - Page 75
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