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History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Dartmouth
NamesakeDartmouth, Devon
BuilderVickers
Laid down19 February 1910
Launched14 February 1911
Commissioned16 October 1911
FateSold for scrapping, 13 December 1930
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeTemplate:Sclass2- light cruiser
Displacement5,275 long tons (5,360 t)
Length
  • 430 ft (131.1 m) p/p
  • 453 ft (138.1 m) o/a
Beam47 ft 6 in (14.5 m)
Draught15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) (mean)
Installed power
Propulsion2 × shafts; 2 × Parsons steam turbines
Speed25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range5,610 nautical miles (10,390 km; 6,460 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement475
Armament
Armour

HMS Dartmouth was a Template:Sclass2- light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was one of the Weymouth sub-class of the Town class. The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1930.

Construction and design

Dartmouth was laid down by Vickers at their Barrow shipyard on 19 February 1910, one of four Town-class protected cruisers ordered under the 1909–1910 Naval Estimates. The four 1909–10 ships, also known as the Weymouth class, were an improved version of five similar Town-class ships laid down under the 1908–1909 Estimates, known as the Bristol class, with a heavier main armament of eight 6 inch (152 mm) Mk XI guns, compared with the two 6 inch and ten 4 inch of the earlier ships.[1][2] The ships had a secondary armament of four Vickers 3-pounder (47 mm) guns, with two submerged 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes mounted on the ships' beams.[1][3]

Dartmouth was 453 feet (138.07 m) long overall, with a beam of 48 feet 6 inches (14.78 m) and a draught of 15 feet 6 inches (4.72 m). She displaced 5,250 long tons (5,330 t) normal and 5,800 long tons (5,900 t) deep load. Machinery was the same as in the Bristol class, with 12 Yarrow boilers feeding Parsons steam turbines, driving four shafts. The turbines were laid out in three separate engine rooms, with high pressure turbines, located in wing compartments, driving the outer shafts and low pressure turbines in a central compartment. The engines were rated at 22,000 shaft horsepower (16,000 kW), giving a design speed of 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph). The ship had four funnels.[1][4]

Dartmouth was launched on 14 December 1910,[1] reaching a speed of 25.9 knots (48.0 km/h; 29.8 mph) during sea trials.[5] She was completed in October 1911,[1] at a cost of £320,406.[6]

Service history

On commissioning, Dartmouth joined the Atlantic Fleet,[7] being attached to the Third Battle Squadron from 1912 to 1913.[1] After a 1913 cruise to the Mediterranean Sea, she was briefly attached to the Second Light Cruiser Squadron at Devonport to participate in the 1913 Naval Manoeuvres before leaving to join the East Indies Squadron of the Eastern Fleet.[1][8][9]

On the outbreak of the First World War, Dartmouth was docked at Bombay, but was soon returned to sea,[10] escorting a troop convoy from Karachi to Mombassa in Kenya and then taking part in the search for the German cruiser Königsberg. On 9 October that year she captured the German tug Adjutant in the Mozambique Channel.[1][11] On 30 October, the cruiser HMS Chatham spotted Königsberg moored up the Rufiji delta, and on 2 November, Dartmouth attempted to engage Königsberg or the supporting steamer Somali but the German ships were too far upstream to be successfully engaged.[12][13] On 10 November, the British scuttled the collier Newbridge in the Rufiji River as a blockship to prevent Königsberg from escaping, and on 11 November, Dartmouth left to reinforce the Cape of Good Hope Station in the aftermath of the Battle of Coronel.[14][11] 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.[1][15] (Unknown to the Royal Navy, Karlsruhe had already been lost, sunk by an internal explosion on 4 November 1914 near Barbados.)[16]

In February 1915, Dartmouth was sent to join the forces operating off the Dardanelles in support of the Gallipoli Campaign.[1][15] On 15 March she suffered a boiler explosion that killed 15 of her crew.[17][18] Despite this damage, Dartmouth continued operations, and on 18 March Dartmouth patrolled off the West coast of the Gallipoli peninsula while a final attempt was made by the battleships of the fleet to force the straits during daylight. The attack was a failure, with three battleships sunk by mines, and several more ships heavily damages by mines or by Turkish gunfire. Dartmouth escorted the battlecruiser HMS Inflexible, badly damaged by striking a mine, to Tenedos.[19][20] On 25 April, the Allies landed troops at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula, with Dartmouth taking part in a diversionary simulated landing further north, at Bulair.[19]

In May 1915, Dartmouth was reassigned to the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron at Brindisi, supporting Italian forces in the Adriatic Sea.[1][21] On 28 December 1915, an Austrian force of cruisers and destroyers raided the port of Durazzo in Albania, and Dartmouth, together with the Italian cruiser Quarto and several French destroyers, set off to intercept the returning Austrian force, later being joined by Dartmouth's sister ship Weymouth and the Italian cruiser Nino Brixo. In the resulting Battle off Durazzo, Dartmouth scored several hits on the Austrian cruiser SMS Helgoland.[22] On 14 May 1917, Dartmouth took part in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto, but was damaged by a torpedo from the German submarine UC-25 on the return journey on 15 May 1917.

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

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 52.
  2. ^ Brown 2010, pp. 63–64.
  3. ^ Lyon Warship Vol. 1 No. 2, p. 57.
  4. ^ The Engineer 17 February 1911, p. 174.
  5. ^ Hythe 1912, p. 26.
  6. ^ Hythe 1912, p. 187.
  7. ^ "NMM, vessel ID 383247" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol v. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  8. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons at Home and Abroad: Second Fleet: Cruisers". The Navy List: p. 269b. August 1913. Retrieved 27 September 2014. {{cite journal}}: |page= has extra text (help)
  9. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons at Home and Abroad: Administrative Distribution of the Second Fleet". The Navy List: p. 270. August 1913. Retrieved 27 September 2014. {{cite journal}}: |page= has extra text (help)
  10. ^ Corbett, Julian S. "History of the Great War: Naval Operations: Volume 1, to the Battle of the Falklands December 1914 (Part 1 of 2)". Naval-History.net. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  11. ^ a b Corbett, Julian S. "History of the Great War: Naval Operations: Volume 1, to the Battle of the Falklands December 1914 (Part 2 of 2)". Naval-History.net. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  12. ^ The Naval Review Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 481–483.
  13. ^ From the Royal Navy log book for HMS Dartmouth, 2 November 1914. Transcribed by the Old Weather[?] project.
  14. ^ The Naval Review Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 485–486.
  15. ^ a b Corbett, Julian S. "History of the Great War: Naval Operations: Volume 2, December 1914 to Spring 1915 (Part 1 of 2)". Naval-History.net. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  16. ^ Massie 2007, p. 286.
  17. ^ From the Royal Navy log book for HMS Dartmouth, 14 March 1915. Transcribed by the Old Weather[?] project.
  18. ^ Kindell, Don. "1st - 31st March 1915: in date, ship/unit & name order". World War 1 - Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies. Naval-History.net. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  19. ^ a b Corbett, Julian S. "History of the Great War: Naval Operations: Volume 2, December 1914 to Spring 1915 (Part 2 of 2)". Naval-History.net. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  20. ^ From the Royal Navy log book for HMS Dartmouth, 18 March 1915. Transcribed by the Old Weather[?] project.
  21. ^ Halpern 2004, pp. 15–17.
  22. ^ Newbolt, Henry. "History of the Great War: Naval Operations: Volume IV, June 1916 to April 1917 (Part 1 of 2)". Retrieved 5 October 2014.

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