HMS Superb (25)
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| Class and type: | Minotaur-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Superb |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear |
| Laid down: | 23 June 1942 |
| Launched: | 31 August 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 16 November 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 1957 |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Dalmuir by Arnott Young, arriving on 8 August 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,885 tons standard 11,560 tons full |
| Length: | 555.5 ft (169.3 m) |
| Beam: | 64 ft (20 m) |
| Draught: | 17.25 ft (5.26 m) |
| Propulsion: | Four Admiralty-type three drum boilers Four shaft Parsons steam turbines 72,500 shp |
| Speed: | 31.5 knots |
| Range: | 2,000 nautical miles at 30 knots (60 km/h) 8,000 nautical miles at 16 knots; 1,850 tons fuel oil |
| Complement: | 867 |
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HMS Superb (pennant number 25) was a Minotaur class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear on 23 June 1942, launched on 31 August 1943 and commissioned on 16 November 1945.
Superb was the last of the Minotaurs to be built, and was completed to a slightly different design to that of the previous members of the class. Construction on her unfinished sisters was halted after the end of the war and they were later scrapped, or converted into the new Tiger class missile cruisers. Superb had an unremarkable career, spending some time as the flagship of Rear admiral Sir Herbert Packer, and was decommissioned in 1957. She was sold three years later and arrived at the Dalmuir yards of Arnott Young on 8 August 1960 to be broken up.
[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.
- WWII cruisers
- HMS Superb at Uboat.net
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