HMS Dartmouth (1911)

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General characteristics
Displacement	5,200 tons
Length	Overall 453 ft
Beam	48½ ft
Draught	15 ft
Propulsion	Parsons turbines Four screws Twelve Yarrow boilers 22,000 hp
Speed	25 knots ()
Range	carried 750 tons (1290 tons maximum) coal 260 tons fuel oil 5,600 miles at 10 knots
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

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dartmouth.

HMS Dartmouth was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 14 December 1910 from the yards of Vickers Limited. She was part of the Weymouth subgroup.

On the outbreak of the First World War, she was stationed in the East Indies and in October that year she captured the German tug Adjutant. In January 1915 Dartmouth was reassigned to the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet but was detached to operate in the South Atlantic in the search for the commerce raider SMS Karlsruhe. In February 1915 Dartmouth was operating off the Dardanelles in support of the allied landings at Gallipoli. In May 1915 she was reassigned to the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron at Brindisi, and took part in the Battle of the Otranto Straits on the night of May 14. She later took part in the Battle off Durazzo (December 28-29 1915), with her sister, HMS Weymouth. On 15 May 1917 Dartmouth was damaged by a torpedo from the submarine UC 25.

Dartmouth was repaired and went on to survive the war. She was sold for scrapping on 13 December 1930 to Metal Industries.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
• Gray, Randal (ed), "Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1906-1921", (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985), ISBN 0-85177-245-5
• Ships of the Weymouth group