| Career | |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Town-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Falmouth |
| Builder: | William Beardmore and Company |
| Laid down: | 21 February 1910 |
| Launched: | 20 September 1910 |
| Commissioned: | September 1911 |
| Fate: | Sunk 19 August 1916 by U-63 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,200 tons |
| Length: | 453 ft (138 m) Overall |
| Beam: | 48.5 ft (14.8 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons turbines Four screws Twelve Yarrow boilers 22,000 hp |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 750 tons (1290 tons maximum) coal 260 tons fuel oil 5,600 nautical miles (10,400 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 433 |
| Armament: | 8 × 6 inch guns 1 × 3 inch AA gun 4 × 3 pdr guns 4 × machine guns 2 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 2 inch deck amidships 1 inch - ¾ inch deck ends |
HMS Falmouth was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 20 September 1910 from the yards of William Beardmore and Company. She was part of the Weymouth subgroup.[1]
She saw action in a number of major naval engagements of the war. On the outbreak of the First World War, she was assigned to the 5th Cruiser Squadron operating in the Mid Atlantic, in August 1914 Falmouth sank four German merchant ships and later that month was reassigned to the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. On 28 August 1914 she took part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and on 24 January 1915 she took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank.[2]
She was still part of the squadron when on 31 May to 1 June 1916 she was present at the Battle of Jutland. Her eventful career came to an end on 19 August 1916 when she was damaged by the German submarine U-66 and then sunk by the German submarine U-63 under the command of Otto Schultze.[3] She sits in 15m at .
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