HMS Dartmouth (1911)
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| Name: | HMS Dartmouth |
| Namesake: | Dartmouth, Devon |
| Builder: | Vickers |
| Laid down: | 19 February 1910 |
| Launched: | 14 February 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 16 October 1911 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 13 December 1930 |
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| Class and type: | Town-class light cruiser |
| Displacement: | 5,275 long tons (5,360 t) |
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| Beam: | 47 ft 6 in (14.5 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) (mean) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 × shafts; 2 × Parsons steam turbines |
| Speed: | 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Range: | 5,610 nautical miles (10,390 km; 6,460 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 475 |
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HMS Dartmouth was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was one of the Weymouth sub-class of the Town class. The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1930.
Dartmouth was laid down by Vickers at their Barrow shipyard on 19 February 1910, one of four Town-class protected cruisers ordered under the 1909–1910 Naval Estimates. The four 1909–10 ships, also known as the Weymouth class, were an improved version of five similar Town-class ships laid down under the 1908–1909 Estimates, known as the Bristol class, with a heavier main armament of eight 6 inch (152 mm) Mk XI guns, compared with the two 6 inch and ten 4 inch of the earlier ships. The ships had a secondary armament of four Vickers 3-pounder (47 mm) guns, with two submerged 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes mounted on the ships' beams.
Dartmouth was 453 feet (138.07 m) long overall, with a beam of 48 feet 6 inches (14.78 m) and a draught of 15 feet 6 inches (4.72 m). She displaced 5,250 long tons (5,330 t) normal and 5,800 long tons (5,900 t) deep load. Machinery was the same as in the Bristol class, with 12 Yarrow boilers feeding Parsons steam turbines, driving four shafts. The turbines were laid out in three separate engine rooms, with high pressure turbines, located in wing compartments, driving the outer shafts and low pressure turbines in a central compartment. The engines were rated at 22,000 shaft horsepower (16,000 kW), giving a design speed of 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph). The ship had four funnels.
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