INS Delhi (C74)
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This article is about the cruiser INS Delhi (1948-1978). For pre 1948 service in the New Zealand Navy, see HMNZS Achilles.
For other ships with the same name, see INS Delhi.
INS Delhi was a Leander-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in 1933 as HMS Achilles, and commissioned into the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy (from 1941 the Royal New Zealand Navy) in 1937 as HMNZS Achilles. She was returned to the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War and in 1948 was sold to the Royal Indian Navy to be recommissioned as HMIS Delhi. In 1950 she was renamed INS Delhi and remained in service until decommissioned at Bombay on 30 June 1978.
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The ship when serving as HMNZS Achilles | |
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Name | INS Delhi C74 [1] |
Namesake | Delhi |
Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
Laid down | 11 June 1931 |
Launched | 1 September 1932 |
Acquired | by purchase, 1948 |
Commissioned | 5 July 1948 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1978 |
Identification | Pennant number: C74 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1978 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leander-class light cruiser |
Displacement | |
Length | 555 ft 6 in (169.32 m) |
Beam | 56 ft (17 m) |
Draught | 19 ft 2 in (5.84 m) |
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Speed | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Range | 5,730 nmi (10,610 km) at 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
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