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Monday 28 December 2015

British light cruiser Despatch (1919) in 1923

D-design .Launched in 1919, completed in 1922, displacement 4.765 tons, horsepower 40.000 hp, oil fired turbine geared machinery and an armament of 6-6” guns, 2-4” anti aircraft guns, 16-3pd and 2pd guns and machineguns and 12 torpedo tubes.(1)

Note
1. Brassey‘s naval and shipping annual 1923. Displacement 445 x 46 x 14.3 feet. Built at Fairfield. Armour deck 3” thick and guns protected by shields. Oil bunker capacity 1.050 tons. Speed 29 knots. Crew numbered 340 men,

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.