GALATEA HMS 1914

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GALATEA HMS 1914

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Jun 16, 2016 7:56 pm

Built as a light-cruiser under yard No 513 by William Beardmore & Company, Dalmuir, Scotland for the Royal Navy.
09 January 1913 laid down.
14 May 1914 launched as the HMS GALATEA.
Displacement 3,568 ton, dim. 132.9 x 11.9 x 4.75m. (draught), length bpp. 125.0m.
Powered by 4 steam turbines, 40,000 shp, four shafts, speed 28.5 knots..
Range by a speed of 16 knots, 5,000 mile.
Armament: 2 – single BL 6 inch Mk XII guns, 6 – single QF 4 inch Mk V guns, 1 – single QF 3 pdr. AA gun and 4 – 21 inch torpedo tubes.
Crew 270.
December 1914 commissioned.

HMS GALATEA was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She fought in the First World War, participating in the Battle of Jutland. Following the war, she was scrapped.

Design and description
The Arethusa-class cruisers were intended to lead destroyer flotillas and defend the fleet against attacks by enemy destroyers. The ships were 456 feet 6 inches (139.1 m) long overall, with a beam of 49 feet 10 inches (15.2 m) and a deep draught of 15 feet 3 inches (4.6 m). Displacement was 5,185 long tons (5,268 t) at normal and 5,795 long tons (5,888 t) at full load. Arethusa –class was powered by four Parsons steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, which produced a total of 40,000 indicated horsepower (30,000 kW). The turbines used steam generated by eight Yarrow boilers which gave her a speed of about 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph). She carried 840 long tons (853 t) tons of fuel oil that gave a range of 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph). The main armament of the Arethusa-class ships was two BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XII guns that were mounted on the centreline fore and aft of the superstructure and six QF 4-inch Mk V guns in waist mountings. They were also fitted with a single QF 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in)) anti-aircraft gun and four 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes in two twin mounts.
Service history
She was launched on 14 May 1914 at William Beardmore and Company shipyard. On her commissioning she was assigned as the leader to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of the Harwich Force, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel. On 4 May 1916, she took part in the shooting down of Zeppelin L 7. At the Battle of Jutland, she was the flagship of the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron under Commodore E.S. Alexander-Sinclair. She was the first ship to report the presence of German ships, triggering the battle. GALATEA was also the first to receive a hit by the German light cruiser SMS ELBING , but no explosion occurred. She was sold for scrapping on 25 October 1921.[ Mount Galatea in Alberta, Canada is named after this ship.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Galatea_(1914)
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