HMS Trinidad (C46)
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| Class: | Crown Colony class |
| Shipyard: | Devonport Naval Base |
| Commissioned: | 1938 |
| Keel laying: | April 21, 1938 |
| Launch: | March 21, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | October 14, 1941 |
| Decommissioning: | Damaged by air raid and sunk on May 15, 1942 |
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| Displacement: | 8661 ts (standard) 10,840 ts (max.) |
| Length: | 169.3 m |
| Width: | 18.9 m |
| Draft: | 5.0 m |
| Drive: | 4 oil-fired Admiralty steam boilers (3-drum type) 4 Parsons steam turbines with single gear 72,500 HP (54,100 kW) on 4 screws |
| Top speed: | 33 knots |
| Range: | 10,100 nm at 12 kn |
| Crew: | 907 sailors |
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| Armor: | Hull: 83 mm Deck: 51 mm Gun turrets: 51 mm Control center: 102 mm |
| Board aircraft: | 2 * Supermarine Walrus |
The HMS Trinidad (C46) was a light cruiser of the Crown Colony-class cruiser , that of the British Royal Navy in the Second World War was used and was lost in May 1942 after an air raid.
construction
The HMS Trinidad was built on the Devonport naval base . The keel was laid on April 21, 1938, the launch on March 21, 1941. She was put into service on October 14, 1941 and was assigned to the Home Fleet until the end of her career .
Calls
While the HMS Trinidad was acting as escort for the PQ-13 convoy in March 1942 , she and the other escort ships were attacked by the German Narvik-class destroyers Z 24 , Z 25 and Z 26 . During the battle on March 29, 1942, she succeeded in sinking Z 26 . During the subsequent torpedo attack on the two remaining destroyers, one of the torpedoes had a defect in the controls. He came back as a cyclist and hit the Trinidad , killing 32 crew members.
The damaged Trinidad was dragged out of the combat zone and finally reached the Russian port of destination Murmansk on its own . On the way, the German submarine U 378 tried to attack the damaged cruiser. However, it was discovered and pushed aside by the HMS Fury . Most of the damage was repaired in Murmansk.
On May 13, 1942, the Trinidad made her way home accompanied by the destroyers HMS Foresight , HMS Forester , HMS Somali and HMS Matchless .
Other ships in the Home Fleet provided their back, as their speed was reduced to 20 knots due to the damage they had suffered (only the aft boiler room was still usable). On the way the group on 15 May 1942 of more than twenty Ju-88 - bombers of kampfgeschwader 30 attacked. All attacks missed the target with the exception of one bomb, which hit close to the previous damage and caused a powerful fire. 63 sailors lost their lives, including twenty survivors of HMS Edinburgh , which was sunk two weeks earlier. Since the ship was no longer maneuverable due to this damage and the fire on board, the HMS Matchless sank it north of the North Cape by three torpedoes ( location ).
literature
- James J. Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy. The complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th century to the present. New revised edition. Chatham, London 2006, ISBN 1-86176-281-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ history.net
- ↑ Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (Wehrmacht Command Staff) 1940–1945. (A documentation). Volume 2, half volume 2: Andreas Hillgruber : January 1, 1942 - December 31, 1942. Study edition, special edition. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7637-5933-6 , p. 1417.
- ↑ naval-history.net
Web links
- Cruisers of World War II (English)
- HMS Trinidad on Uboat.net (English)
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