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Thursday, 28 November 2019

Australian light cruiser Adelaide 1918-at least 1923

Launched in 1918, completed in 1922, displacement 5.560 tons, horsepower 25.000 hp, coal-oil fired turbine direct drive machinery and an armament of 9-6” guns, 1-3” anti-aircraft gun, 1-12pd field gun, 6-3pd guns, machineguns and 2 submerged torpedo tubes.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.