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HMS Cleopatra (33)

HMS Cleopatra 1945 IWM FL 5210.jpg
Cleopatra at anchor in the Clyde, April 1945
History
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Name: HMS Cleopatra
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie and Company, (Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK)
Laid down: 5 January 1939
Launched: 27 March 1940
Commissioned: 5 December 1941
Decommissioned: 15 February 1953
Fate: Scrapped, Arrived at Newport to be scrapped by J Cashmore on 15 December 1958.
General characteristics
Class and type: Dido-class light cruiser
Displacement:
  • 5,600 long tons (5,700 t) (standard)
  • 6,850 long tons (6,960 t) (full load)
Length:
  • 485 ft (148 m) p.p.
  • 512 ft (156 m) o/a
Beam: 50 ft 6 in (15.39 m)
Draught: 14 ft (4.3 m)
Installed power: 62,000 shp (46,000 kW)
Propulsion:
Speed: 32.25 kn (37.11 mph; 59.73 km/h)
Range:
  • 1,500 mi (2,400 km; 1,300 nmi) at 30 kn (35 mph; 56 km/h)
  • 4,240 mi (6,820 km; 3,680 nmi) at 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h)
Capacity: 1,100 short tons (1,000 t) fuel oil
Complement: 480
Sensors and
processing systems:

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Radar

  • Surface 274
  • Target Indicator 293
  • Surface DC 284
  • Anti Aircraft DC 285(3)
  • Air Warning 281B
Armament:
  • Original configuration:
  • 10 x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual purpose guns,
  • 2 x 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms single guns,
  • 2 x 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms quad guns,
  • 2 x 21 in (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes.
  • Late 1942 - Early 1943 configuration:
  • 10 x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual purpose guns,
  • 6 x 20 mm (0.8 in) single guns,
  • 2 x 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms quad guns,
  • 2 x 21 in (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes.
  • Late 1943 - 1944:
  • 8 x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual purpose guns,
  • 4 x 20 mm (0.8 in) single guns,
  • 6 x 20 mm (0.8 in) twin guns,
  • 3 x 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors Mk III single guns,
  • 2 x 21 in (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes
  • Late 1944-1951
  • 8x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual purpose guns,
  • '12x 40 mm (1.6 mm) quad bofors
  • '4 x 20 mm (0.8)
  • 1951-56
  • 8 x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual purpose guns
  • 6 x 40 mm (1.6 in) twin guns
  • 4 x 40 mm (1.6 in)single
  • 2 x 20 mm (0.8 in)single
Armour:
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  • Original configuration:
  • Belt: 3 in (7.6 cm)
  • Deck: 1 in (2.5 cm)
  • Magazines: 2 in (5.1 cm)
  • Bulkheads: 1 in (2.5 cm)
Notes: Pennant number 33

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Radar

HMS Cleopatra was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited (Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK), with the keel being laid down on 5 January 1939. She was launched on 27 March 1940, and commissioned on 5 December 1941.

Cleopatra went out to Gibraltar early in 1942, and on 9 February she sailed for Malta, where she was immediately damaged by a bomb. After repair, she was transferred to Alexandria in early March for the 15th Cruiser Squadron. She was Admiral Philip Vian's flagship during the Second Battle of Sirte, when his group of four light cruisers and 17 destroyers held off an Italian force which included the battleship Littorio, two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and 10 destroyers, which had all been sent to intercept their convoy to Malta. During the engagement, Cleopatra´s radar and wireless stations were wrecked by a 6" round fired by the Italian light cruiser Giovanni delle Bande Nere. Other reports state that Cleopatra's after turrets were also damaged. In June 1942, she covered Operation Harpoon and Vigorous, and in August bombarded Rhodes as a diversion for the Operation Pedestal convoy.

Cleopatra was drydocked in Massawa on 19 September 1942 for minor repairs and cleaning and was undocked five days later. During the refloating, she slipped on the angled drydock, crushing every wooden keel block on the dock but sustaining little hull damage to herself. Captain G. Grantham considered the resulting leak a minor nuisance and ordered Cleopatra to return to service.


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