HMS Curlew (D42)
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| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Curlew |
| Builder: | Vickers Limited, Barrow in Furness |
| Laid down: | August 21, 1916 |
| Launched: | July 5, 1917 |
| Commissioned: | December 14, 1917 |
| Fate: | Sunk off Narvik May 26, 1940 in air attack |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 4,190 tons |
| Length: | 450 ft (140 m) |
| Beam: | 43.6 ft (13.3 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two Brown-Curtis geared turbines Six Yarrow boilers Two screws 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Range: | carried 300 tons (950 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 327 |
| Armament: | 5 × 6 inch (152 mm) guns 2 × 3 inch (76 mm) guns 2 × 2 pounder (907g) guns 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 3 inch side (amidships) 2¼-1½ inch side (bows) 2 inch side (stern) 1 inch upper decks (amidships) 1 inch deck over rudder |
HMS Curlew was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was part of the Ceres group of the C-class of cruisers.
She was laid down by Vickers Limited on August 21, 1916, and launched on July 5, 1917, being commissioned into the navy on December 14, 1917. In common with most of her sisters Curlew was rearmed to become an Anti-Aircraft cruiser before the war. By 1936 she had been placed in reserve at the Nore, where she was commanded by Augustus Agar until early 1937. On the outbreak of war she was commanded by Captain Basil Charles Barrington Brooke, RN, and served with the Home Fleet. She participated in the Norwegian campaign, and whilst operating off the Norwegian coast, she came under attack from German Ju-88 bombers and was sunk in Lavangsfjord, Ofotfjord near Narvik.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
- HMS Curlew at Uboat.net
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