Laid down by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company, Elswick on 23 September 1918, launched on 19 May 1920, completed at the Chatham Royal Dockyard in Janury 1926, sunk as a target in 1947 and sold to be broken up on 23 June 1948. Part of British Emerald or E-class light cruisers, preceded by Danae or D-class, succeeded by Leander-class. Consisted of Emerald, Enterprise and Euphrates. General technical characteristics: displacement 7,580 (standard)-9,435 (full load) tons and as dimensions 173.7 x 16.6 x 5.0 metres or 570 x 54.5 x 16.5 feet. Propulsion consisted of 4 shaft Brown-Curtiss single reduction geared turbines and 8 Yarrow-type water tube boilers supplying 80,000 shp allowing a speed of 33 knots amd a range of 1,350 nautical miles/32 knots or 8,000 nautical miles/15 knots. Crew numbered 572 men. Original armour amidships 7.6 cm/3”, bow 6.4-3.8cm/2.5-1.5”, stern 5.1cm/2”, deck 2.5cm/1”. Original armament 7x1-15cm/6”Mk XII guns, 4x3pd 4.7cm pom-pom guns, 3x1-10cm/4” anti aircraft guns and 4-53.3cm/21” quadruple torpedo tubes.
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