HMS Gloucester (1909)
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| Career |  |
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| Class and type: | Town-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Gloucester |
| Builder: | William Beardmore and Company |
| Laid down: | April 15, 1909 |
| Launched: | 28 October 1909 |
| Commissioned: | October 1910 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 9 May 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,800 tons |
| Length: | 453 ft (138 m) Overall |
| Beam: | 47 ft (14 m) |
| Draught: | 15.5 ft (4.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons turbines Four screws Twelve Yarrow boilers 22,000 hp |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 600 tons (1353 tons maximum) coal 260 tons fuel oil |
| Complement: | 411 |
| Armament: | 2 × 6 inch guns 10 × 4 inch guns 1 × 3 inch guns 4 × 3 pdr guns 4 × machine guns 2 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 2 inch, 1¾ inch, ¾ inch deck 6 inch conning tower |
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HMS Gloucester was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 28 October 1909 from the yards of William Beardmore and Company. She formed part of the Bristol subgroup.
On being commissioned, Gloucester was assigned to the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean and in August 1914 she was involved in the hunt for the German cruisers SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau. For this operation she flew the flag of Admiral Archibald Berkeley Milne and managed to slightly damage the Breslau with one hit at the waterline in the ensuing exchange of gun fire. She was unable to prevent the German ships escaping however. Later that year Gloucester was operating off the west coast of Africa, hunting for German raiders. In February 1915 she was reassigned to the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. In April 1916 she shelled Galway, Ireland during the Easter Rising.
On 31 May to 1 June 1916, she took part in the Battle of Jutland and later that year was reassigned to the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron. A posting in the Mediterranean followed in December 1916 on joining the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Adriatic. She survived the war and was sold for scrapping on 9 May 1921 to Ward, of Portishead and Briton Ferry.
[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
- Gray, Randal (ed), "Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1906-1921", (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985), ISBN 0-85177-245-5
- Ships of the Bristol group
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