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Friday, 18 December 2015

British light cruiser Weymouth (1910) in 1923

Source Fleets of the world 1915. Compiled from official sources and classified according to types

Weymouth-class. Launched in 1910, completed in 1911, displacement 5.250 tons, horsepower 22.000 hp, coal-oil fired turbine direct drive machinery and an armament of 8-6” guns, 1-3” anti aircraft gun, 1-12pd field gun, 16-3pd and machine guns and 2 submerged torpedo tubes.(1)

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.

Note
1. Brassey‘s naval and shipping annual 1923. Displacement 5.250 tons and as dimensions 430 x 48,5 x 15,5 feet. Her crew numbered 390 men. Fuel bunker capacity 1.290-200 tons. Building costs 337.738 pound sterling/ Parsons machinery.