HMS Charybdis (88)

	Charybdis underway, February 1943
History
United Kingdom
Name	Charybdis
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	9 November 1939
Launched	17 September 1940
Completed	3 December 1941
Identification	Pennant number: 88
Fate	Sunk during the Battle of Sept-Îles, 23 October 1943
Badge	On a Field White, issuant from a whirlpool in base a fig tree Proper, suspended from the branches a bat inverted Gold.
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Dido-class light cruiser
Displacement	5,600 tons (standard); 6,975 tons (full load);
Length	485 ft (148 m) pp; 512 ft (156 m) (o/a);
Beam	50 ft 6 in (15.39 m)
Draught	14.3 ft (4.4 m)
Installed power	4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers; 62,000 shp (46 MW);
Propulsion	4 shafts; 4 geared steam turbines
Speed	32.25 knots (59.73 km/h; 37.11 mph)
Range	6,824 km (4,240 miles) at 16 knots
Complement	480
Armament	8 × 4.5 in DP dual guns,; 1 × 4 in (102 mm) starshell gun,; 8 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon single guns,; 2 × 2-pounder (40 mm) 'pom-poms' single guns,; 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes;
Armour	Belt: 3 in (76 mm),; Deck: 1 in (25 mm),; Magazines: 2 in (51 mm),; Bulkheads: 1 in (25 mm); Turrets: ½ inch;

HMS Charybdis was a Dido-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy and was sunk with severe loss of life by German torpedo boats in an action in the English Channel in October 1943.