HMS Royalist (1915)
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| Career |  |
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| Class and type: | Arethusa class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Royalist |
| Builder: | William Beardmore and Company |
| Laid down: | 3 June 1913 |
| Launched: | 14 January 1915 |
| Commissioned: | March 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 24 August 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,500 tons |
| Length: | 436 ft (133 m) Overall |
| Beam: | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Draught: | 13.5 ft (4.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons turbines Eight Yarrow boilers 40,000 hp |
| Speed: | 28.5 knots (53 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 482 tons (810 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 318 |
| Armament: | 3 × 6 inch guns 4 × 4 inch guns 2 × 3 inch guns 8 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 3 inch side (amidships) 2¼-1½ inch side (bows) 2½ - 2 inch side (stern) 1 inch upper decks (amidships) 1 inch deck over rudder 6 inch conning tower |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Royalist.
HMS Royalist was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 14 January 1915 at William Beardmore and Company's shipyard.
On being commissioned, she was assigned to the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, and on 31 May to 1 June 1916 Royalist took part in the Battle of Jutland. She survived the battle and in February 1917 was reassigned to the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. She survived to the end of the First World War, and was sold for scrapping on 24 August 1922 to Cashmore, of Newport.
[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
- Ships of the Arethusa class
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