Ship Class: HMS Southampton

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Ship Class	HMS Southampton


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Ship	HMS Birmingham HMS Glasgow HMS Gloucester HMS Liverpool HMS Manchester HMS Newcastle HMS Sheffield HMS Southampton
Ship Type	Cruiser
Cruiser Type	Light

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Developed By Country	3) 2: Flag	4) 1: First Laid Down	5) 1: Last Disposed
	Great Britain		1934 Oct 04	1967 Jan 01

Ship Classes
	Standard Displacement	Length Overall	Beam	Draught	Complement	Class Complement
	9 099ton	180.2m	18.79m	6.2m	748	5 984

Ship Classes
	Shafts	Main Engines	Max Speed	Machinery Type	Boilers
	4	75 000hp	32kt	Steam Turbine	4

Ship Classes
	Bunkerage	Range	Cruising	Cruising Endurance
	2 060ton	7 700mile	13kt	21.446day

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Designed By	3) 1: Governed By Treaty Category	4) 1: Improved In Ship Class	5) 4: as Class Improvement	6) 1: Armour	7) 1: Machinery	8) 1: Armament
	Johns Sir Arthur	1930 London, Cruiser Light	HMS Edinburgh	N	1 431ton	1 492ton	1 082ton

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: As Built Armament	3) 2:Turret Model	4) 3:Image	5) 2:Torpedo Model	6) 1: As Built Armour	7) 1: Installed With Sensor	8) 7:	9) 7: Mount Radar	10) 9:Image	11) 7:Image
	Torpedo 6 X BR 21in Mark VII			BR 21in Mark VII	2in Turret \| 4.5in Belt \| 2in Deck	BR, Director, HACS Mark IV		BR, Radar, Type 285
	Gun 4 X BR 6in 50cal Mk XXII Triple	BR 6in 50cal Mk XXII Triple				BR, Director, Main Cruiser Mark ?		BR, Radar, Type 284
	Gun 4 X BR 4in 45cal QF Mk V Twin	BR 4in 45cal QF Mk V Twin
	Gun 2 X BR 0.5in MG Quad	BR 0.5in MG Quad

Ship Classes
	Number In Class	Built By Shipbuilder
	8	Devonport Dockyard Fairfield Shipbuilding And Engineering Ltd Hawthorn Leslie At Hebburn John Brown At Clydebank Scotts Vickers Armstrong At Tyne

Ship Classes
	Potentially Involved In Tension	Involved In Activity	Covered By Assignment
	1889 1946 Great Britain Germany 1917 1941 Great Britain Russia 1922 1944 Great Britain Italy 1935 1945 Great Britain Japan	1940 07 09 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Punto Stilo, Italy 1940 11 11 0100 Air Strike Attack On Taranto Taranto 1940 11 27 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Cape Spartivento, Sardinia 1941 03 27 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Cape Matapan, Greece 1941 05 27 0947 Battle Sinking Of Bismarck Mid North Atlantic 1942 12 01 0100 Surface Action Convoy JW51B North Cape, North Atlantic 1943 12 26 0100 Surface Action Sinking Of The Scharnhorst North Cape, North Atlantic	1939-Dec-01 HMS Birmingham - HMS Liverpool - BR China Station 1939-Dec-01 HMS Cornwall - HMS Kent - HMS Dorsetshire - HMS Gloucester - HMAS Hobart - RN 5th Cruiser Squadron 1939-Dec-01 HMS Southampton - HMS Glasgow - HMS Edinburgh - RN 2nd Cruiser Squadron 1945-Jan-01 HMS Cumberland - HMS Suffolk - HMS London - HMS Newcastle - HMS Phoebe - HMS Euryalus - HMS Kenya - HMS Nigeria - RN 5th Cruiser Squadron 1945-Jan-01 HMS Sussex - HMS Birmingham - HMS Glasgow - HMS Belfast - HMS Dido - HMS Bellona - HMS Diadem - HMS Mauritius - HMS Jamaica - HMS Bermuda - HMS Apollo - RN 10th Cruiser Squadron

Documents
1) Covered By Document	2) 1: as Document Reference	3) 2: Page Number