HMS Carlisle (D67)
Royal Navy C-class light cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Carlisle.
HMS Carlisle was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the English city of Carlisle. She was the name ship of the Carlisle group of the C-class of cruisers. Carlisle was credited with shooting down eleven Axis aircraft during the Second World War and was the top scoring anti-aircraft ship in the Royal Navy.[1]
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Name | Carlisle |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
Laid down | 2 October 1917 |
Launched | 9 July 1918 |
Commissioned | 11 November 1918 |
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Fate | CTL 1943, broken up at Alexandria, 1948 |
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Class and type | C-class light cruiser |
Displacement | 4290 long 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 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
Range | carried 300 tons (950 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
Complement | 330-350 |
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