CL - HMS Cardiff (D58)

CL - HMS Cardiff


class: C - Caledon / Ceres / Carlisle - light cruiser

yard: Fairfield SB
construction started: 22.7.1916
running on water: 12.4.1917
taken into the service: 7.1917

removed: 3.1946 sold for scrapping

length: 137.2 meters
width: 13 m
draught: 4.6 m

Displacement
standard: 4 180 tonnes
maximum: 5 to 150 tons

Drive
turbine: 2 shaft Parsons turbines
power: 40,000 hp
range:
speed: 29 knots

Armament
5 × 152mm (5 x I)
2 × 76 mm (2xI-AA)
2 × 40mm (-AA) later
5 x 20mm (-AA) later
8 x TT 553mm


Crew: 400 men


Hrbek Ivan Hrbek, Jaroslav: the Fleet of the states participating in the second world war, Our Troops, Prague, 1994. ISBN 80-206-0245-3

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