HMS REPULSE

Ordered: 30 December 1914

Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland

Laid down: 25 January 1915

Launched: 8 January 1916

Commissioned: 18 August 1916

Motto: Qui Tangit Frangitur
"Whoever touches me is broken"

Nickname: Repair[1]

Fate: Sunk by Japanese air attack off Malaya on 10 December 1941
General characteristics
Class and type: Renown-class battlecruiser
Displacement: 27,200 long tons (27,600 t) (normal)
32,220 long tons (32,740 t) (deep load)
Length: 750 feet 2 inches (228.7 m) p.p.
794 feet 1.5 inches (242.0 m) (o.a.)
Beam: 90 feet 1.75 inches (27.5 m)
Draught: 27 feet (8.2 m)
Installed power: 112,000 shp (84,000 kW)
Propulsion: 4 × shafts, 2 × Steam turbine sets,
42 × water-tube boilers
Speed: 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
Crew: 967
1222 (1919)

Armament:
3 × 2 – 15-inch (381 mm) guns
6 × 3, 2 × 1 – 4-inch (102 mm) guns
2 × 1 – 3-inch (76 mm) AA guns
2 × 1 – submerged 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm)
Decks: 1–2.5 in (25–64 mm)
Barbettes: 4–7 in (102–178 mm)
Gun turrets: 7–9 in (178–229 mm)
Conning tower: 10 in (254 mm)
Bulkheads: 3–4 in (76–100 mm)
General characteristics (1939)
Displacement: 34,600 long tons (35,200 t)
Length: 794 feet 2.5 inches (242.1 m) (o/a)
Beam: 89 feet 11.5 inches (27.4 m)
Draught: 29 feet 8 inches (9.0 m)
Installed power: 112,000 shp (84,000 kW)
Propulsion: 4 × shafts, 4 × direct-drive steam turbines
Speed: about 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range: 3,650 nmi (6,760 km; 4,200 mi)
Complement: 1,181

Armament:
3 × 2 – 15-inch (381 mm) guns
4 × 3 – 4-inch (102 mm) guns
6 × 1 – 4-inch (102 mm) AA guns
2 × 8 – 40-millimetre (1.6 in) 2-pounder "pom-pom" AA guns
8 × 21 in (530 mm) Mk II torpedo tubes
Armour: Belt: 2–9 in (51–229 mm)
Decks: 1–4 in (25–102 mm),
otherwise no change
Aircraft carried: 4 × seaplanes
Aviation facilities: 1 × do

Photo Credits: The Late Allan Green Collection Vic Australia

Details supplied by WIKIPEDIA






HMS DANAE

Career (United Kingdom)

Name: HMS Danae
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth

Laid down: 1 December 1916

Launched: 26 January 1918

Commissioned: 22 July 1918

Decommissioned: 4 October 1944

Fate: Transferred to Poland

Career (Poland)

Name: ORP Conrad

Namesake: Józef Konrad Korzeniowski

Commissioned: 4 October 1944

Decommissioned: 28 September 1946

Fate: Returned to Royal Navy
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Danae
Recommissioned: 28 September 1946
Decommissioned: 22 January 1948
Fate: Scrapped 27 March 1948 at Barrow
General characteristics
Class and type: Danae-class light cruiser
Displacement: 4,276 tons
Full: 5,603 tons
After 1924: 4,850
Length: 445 ft (136 m)
Beam: 46.5 ft (14.2 m)
Draught: 14.5 ft (4.4 m)
Propulsion: Six Yarrow-type water-tube boilers
Parsons geared steam turbines
Two shafts
40,000 shp
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range: 1,060 tons of oil
1,480 nautical miles (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
6,700 nautical miles (12,400 km; 7,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 462
Armament:
1918: six BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) L/45 Mark XII guns on single mountings CP Mark XIV
two QF 3 inch (76.2 mm) Mk II AA guns
two 40 mm QF 2 pdr "Pom-pom" AA guns
twelve 21 in (533 mm) torpedoes (4 triple launchers)
1930: six BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) L/45 Mark XII guns
three QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk V AA guns
two 40 mm 2 pdr Pom-pom AA guns
twelve 533 mm torpedo launchers
1942: six 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XII guns
two 4-inch Mk V AA guns
six 40 mm 2 pdr Pom-pom AA
twelve 533 mm torpedo launchers
1943: five 6-inch (152 mm) guns,
one 4-inch (102 mm) gun
8 x 40 mm 2 pdr Pom-pom AA guns
3 x quadruple mounting Mark VII 2 pounder Mark VIII guns
12 x 20 mm AA guns
depth charge launcher
Armour: 3 inch side (amidships)
2, 1¾, 1½ side (bow and stern)
1 inch upper decks (amidships)
1 inch deck over rudder

Photo Credits: The Late Allan Green Collection Vic Australia

Details: Wikipedia