HMS Cairo (D87)
Royal Navy C-class light cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMS Cairo (D87) was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the Egyptian capital, Cairo. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was part of the Carlisle group of the C-class of cruisers.
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Name | HMS Cairo |
Builder | Cammell Laird |
Laid down | 17 November 1917 |
Launched | 19 November 1918 |
Commissioned | 23 September 1919 |
Reclassified | Converted to anti-aircraft cruiser in 1939 |
Motto | Kaihara ('Victory') |
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Fate | Sunk 12 August 1942 by the Italian submarine Axum off Bizerta |
Badge | "On a Field Blue, a female Egyptian head proper, habited Black and Silver, upon three wavelets Silver" |
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Displacement | 4,190 tons |
Length | 451.4 ft (137.6 m) |
Beam | 43.9 ft (13.4 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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Speed | 29 knots |
Range | carried 300 tons (950 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
Complement | 330–350 |
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