HMS Diomede (D92)
HMS Diomede in 1938 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Diomede |
| Ordered | March 1918 |
| Builder | Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down | 3 June 1918 |
| Launched | 29 April 1919 |
| Commissioned | October 1922 |
| Decommissioned | 5 April 1946 |
| In service | 1922 |
| Out of service | 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: 92 (Jun 22); I.92 (1936); D.92 (1940) |
| Motto | Fortibus Feroces Frangitur |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 13 May 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Danae-class cruiser |
| Displacement | 4,850 long tons (4,930 t) |
| Length | 471 ft 2 in (143.61 m) |
| Beam | 46 ft 3 in (14.10 m) |
| Draught | 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Range | 6,700 nmi (12,400 km; 7,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Endurance | 24 days |
| Capacity | 1,060 tons coal/oil |
| Complement | 450 |
| Armament | 6 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns |
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HMS Diomede was a Danae-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. Constructed at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, she was constructed too late to take part in World War I and was completed at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth. Between the wars, she served on the China Station, Pacific waters, East Indies Waters and from 1936 onwards, in reserve. In World War II she performed four years of arduous war duty, during which time she captured the crew of the German blockade runner Idarwald after she had chased that ship and when the crew scuttled Idarwald. Between 22 July 1942 and 24 September 1943 she was converted to a training ship at Rosyth Dockyard. In 1945 she was placed in reserve and scrapped a year later.