HMAS CANBERRA
Australian
Namesake: City of Canberra
Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Yard number: 513
Laid down: 9 September 1925
Launched: 31 May 1927
Completed: 10 July 1928
Commissioned: 9 July 1928
Motto: Pro Rege, Lege et Grege
Latin: "For the King, the Law, and the People"
Honours and awards: Battle honours:
East Indies 1940–41
Pacific 1941–42
Guadacanal 1942
Savo Island 1942
Fate: Sunk following battle, 9 August 1942
General characteristics
Class and type: County class cruiser
Kent sub-class
Displacement: 9,850 tons (light)
10,000 tons (standard)
Length: 590 ft (180 m) between perpendiculars
630 ft 1 in (192.05 m) overall
Beam: 68.25 ft (20.80 m)
Draught: 21 ft 4 in (6.50 m) (maximum)
Propulsion: 8 Yarrow boilers, 4 shaft Brown-Curtis geared turbines, 80,000 shp
Speed: 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph) (maximum)
12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) (cruising)
Range: 2,870 nautical miles (5,320 km; 3,300 mi) at 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
13,200 nautical miles (24,400 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: Pre-war:
690 standard
710 as flagship
Wartime:
751 standard
819 at loss
Armament: 4 × 2 – 8-inch guns (4 twin turrets)
4 × 1 – 4-inch anti-aircraft guns
4 × 1 – 2-pounder quadruple pom-poms
4 × 1 – 3-pounder saluting guns
12–16 .303-inch machine guns
2 × 4 – 21-inch torpedo tubes
4 × multiple pom-poms (installed 1942)
5 × 1 – 20 mm Oerlikon guns
Armour: 1.5 to 3 inches (38 to 76 mm) armour deck over machinery spaces and magazines
up to 2 inches (51 mm) over turrets
up to 3 inches (76 mm) on conning tower
Anti-torpedo bulges
Aircraft carried: 1 amphibious aircraft (initially Seagull III, later Walrus)

Details: Wikipedia

Photo Credits: The Late Allan Green Collection Vic. Australia