HMS Dublin (1912)
First World War
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History | |
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Name | Dublin |
Namesake | Dublin |
Builder | William Beardmore & Company, Dalmuir |
Laid down | 3 January 1911 |
Launched | 30 April 1912 |
Commissioned | March 1913 |
Out of service | 1924 |
Fate | Scrapped, July 1926 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Town-class light cruiser |
Displacement | 5,400 long tons (5,500 t) |
Length | 457 ft (139.3 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 49 ft (14.9 m) |
Draught | 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m) |
Depth | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 4 screws; 2 steam turbine sets |
Speed | 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph) |
Range | 4,460 nmi (8,260 km; 5,130 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 475 |
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HMS Dublin, together with Chatham and Southampton, was a Town-class light cruiser of the Chatham subgroup, each costing an average £334,053.
Design and description
Dublin displaced 5,400 long tons (5,500 t) at normal load. The ship had an
Her main armament consisted of eight
The ship's nickel steel
Operational history
Dublin was laid down on 11 April 1911 by
Pursuit of Goeben
Captain
Gallipoli and torpedoing
In February 1915, Dublin was sent to the
In home waters
Dublin served in the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron alongside Southampton, Birmingham and Nottingham with the Grand Fleet from 1916 to 1919. Now under Captain Albert Charles Scott (later Vice Admiral; HMS Dublin 1916-1918), she participated in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. During the subsequent night actions, Dublin fired 117 6-inch shells and, along with Southampton, attacked and sank a destroyer. Both ships, however, sustained severe damage. Three crew members were killed and 27 wounded when Dublin received five 5.9 shell inch hits from the cruiser SMS Elbing and eight 4.1-inch shell hits from Stuttgart (possibly also Frauenlob and Hamburg). Subsequent repairs to Dublin were not completed until 17 June.
On 3 May 1917 in the North Sea, Dublin with the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and four destroyers (Nepean, Obdurate, Pelican, Pylades), left Rosyth for a sweep between the mouths of the Forth and the Humber. The following day, during an action in the North Sea, Dublin observed the Zeppelin L 43 about 17 miles away to the east at 10:25, rapidly approaching a strange vessel. Both cruisers promptly made for the enemy, opening fire on it at extreme range. At 10:54 Dublin saw the track of a torpedo passing ahead of her. At 11:12 a submarine was sighted and at 11:15 another one was spotted, which fired two torpedoes at her. At 11:20 she sighted a third submarine, which she engaged with her guns and on which she dropped a depth-charge. The Zeppelin made a direct attack: making for the stern of Dublin and rising hastily as it flew, it endeavoured to obtain a position vertically above the cruiser in order to drop bombs on her - an attempt which was foiled by Dublin's hurried swerve to starboard.[4]
Post-war career
Dublin was commissioned for the 6th squadron at the Africa Station from January 1920 until 1924, though she served for a short time in April with the 3rd squadron in the Mediterranean until being sent to the Reserve at Nore in 1924. She was sold for scrapping to J.J. King at Troon in July 1926, but she ran aground on the way to the breakers. She was refloated in July 1927 and broken up later that year.
Notes
- ^ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 20 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
Footnotes
References
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Friedman, Norman (2010). British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-078-8.
- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Jose, Arthur W (1941). The Royal Australian Navy, 1914–1918. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. Volume IX (9th ed.). Sydney, New South Wales: Angus and Robertson. OCLC 7466152.