Light cruisers of the Danae type are the type of light cruisers of the Royal Royal Navy of Great Britain during the First World War . They became the development of the 3rd series of cruisers of the type “C” - “ Caledon ”. A total of 12 units were laid down, 8 of which were commissioned: Danae , Dauntless , Dragon replenished the Royal Navy in 1918. 5 units were completed after the First World War: Delhi, Delhi , Despatch , Diomede , Dunedin, and Durban . 4 more ships were not completed.
| Danae Light Cruisers | |
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| Danae-class light cruisers | |
 Light cruiser Danae | |
| Project | |
| A country |
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| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | Normal - 4970 t , full - 5870 t |
| Length | 143.6 m |
| Width | 13.9 m |
| Draft | 5 m |
| Reservation | Belt - 75-57 mm; nasal belt - 38 mm; aft belt - 51 mm; deck - 25 mm; Cellar box: walls - 12.7 mm roof -25.4 mm |
| Engines | 2 Parsons or Brown-Curtiss |
| Power | 40 000 liters with. (29.4 Mw ) |
| Mover | 2 screws |
| Speed | 29 knots (53.7 km / h ) |
| Crew | 450 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 6 × 1 - 152 mm / 45 |
| Flak | 2 × 1 - 76 mm 2 × 1 - 40 mm / 40 anti-aircraft guns [1] |
| Mine torpedo armament | 4 three-pipe 533 mm torpedo tubes |
Their improved version was the Emerald- class cruiser.
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Design
The cruisers were two-pipe and two-masted ships with a stern cruiser shape and a half-tank hull structure. Three units of the first series had the usual smooth forecastle and inclined stem, the subsequent ones got the bow tip of the so-called “trawler type” (the deck of the ship’s forecastle acquired a saddle lift, hollow rising from the tank gun “A” to the stem). This led to a decrease in the flooding of the forecastle at high speeds and on unrest.
Booking
The thickness of the armored two-layer belt in the MKO area is 76.2 mm (50.8 + 25.4 mm), further to the ends, the ammunition cellars and fuel tanks were protected by 57.15 mm thick plates (38.1 + 19.05 mm), in the stern thickness of the belt decreased to 50.8 mm (38.1 + 12.7 mm) and in the nose to 38.1 mm (25.4 + 12.7 mm). The lower armored deck with a thickness of 25.4 mm extended only above the aft steering compartment, covering the steering machine, while the upper, having the same thickness, covered the engine rooms, boiler rooms and gun cellars. The nasal superstructure was not booked. For the first time, cruisers used the concept of box booking, which consisted in concentrating additional reservations around the most vital places, saving weight. Ammunition cellars were locked in a 12.7 mm box with a 25.4 mm roof.
Service
" Danae " - laid down on December 11, 1916, launched on January 26, 1918, went into operation in June 1918.
Dontless - laid down on January 3, 1917, launched on April 10, 1918, went into operation in November 1918.
" Dragon " - laid in January 1917, launched on December 29, 1917, went into operation in August 1918
Delhi - laid down on October 29, 1917, launched on August 23, 1918, went into operation in June 1919.
" Dispatch " - laid down on July 8, 1918, launched on October 24, 1919, went into operation in June 1922
Dyomed - laid down on June 3, 1918, launched on April 24, 1919, went into operation in October 1922
" Dunedin " - laid down on November 5, 1917, launched on November 19, 1918, went into operation in October 1922.
" Durban " - laid down on June 22, 1918, launched on May 29, 1919, went into operation in October 1921.
Notes
- ↑ All data is given at the time of entry into operation.
Links
Literature
- Donets A.I. Cruisers of alphabetical types. Part 2 // Finishing the scout line. Cruisers of types D and E. - Moscow: LLC War Book, 2006. - 100 p. - (Cruisers of Britain). - ISBN 5-902863-07-4 . Archived December 6, 2013 on Wayback Machine
- Nenakhov Yu. Yu. Encyclopedia of the Cruisers 1910 - 2005. - Minsk: Harvest, 2007. - ISBN 978-985-13-8619-8 .
- Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1906-1921 / Gray, Randal (ed.). - London: Conway Maritime Press, 1985 .-- 439 p. - ISBN 0-85177-245-5 .