HMS Lowestoft (1913)

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Career Royal Navy Ensign
Class and type: Town-class light cruiser
Name: HMS Lowestoft
Ordered: under 1911 Naval Estimates
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Laid down: 29 July 1912
Launched: 23 April 1913
Commissioned: April 1914
Fate: Sold 8 January 1931 for scrapping
General characteristics
Displacement: 5,440 tons
Length: 457 ft (139 m) Overall
Beam: 50 ft (15 m)
Draught: 15.75 ft (4.80 m)
Propulsion: Parsons turbines
Four screws
Twelve Yarrow boilers
25,000 hp
Speed: 25.5 knots (47 km/h)
Range: carried 1165 tons maximum coal
235 tons fuel oil
4,680 miles at 10 knots
Complement: 433
Armament: 9 × 6 inch guns
1 × 3 inch AA gun
4 × 3 pdr guns
2 × machine guns
2 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: 3 inch side amidships
1½ inch side (forward)
1¾ inch side (aft)

HMS Lowestoft was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 23 April 1913 from Chatham Dockyard. She was part of the Birmingham subgroup.

She was initially assigned to the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, and in August 1914 she sank a German merchant ship. On the 28 August 1914, she participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and on the 24 January 1915 Lowestoft took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank. In February 1915, she was reassigned to the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron, and in 1916 reassigned again to the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron, operating in the Mediterranean. She survived the war and was sold for scrapping on 8 January 1931 to Ward, of Milford Haven.

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