Class | Emerald |
Type | Light Cruiser |
Year | 1926 |
Crew | 450 |
Dimensions | |
Length | 173.7 m |
Beam | 16.6 m |
Draught | 5.6 m |
Displacement | |
Empty | 7,300 t |
Loaded | 9,450 t |
Performance | |
Speed | 61 km/h |
Range | 14,816 km @ 28 km/h |
Machinery | |
Shafts | 4 |
Turbines | 4 x Geared steam 80,000 hp Brown-Curtis |
Boilers | 8 x Yarrow |
Fuel | Oil: 1,600 t |
Armament | |
Main | 7 x 152-mm/45 (7 x 1) BL 6"/45 Mk. XII -5° / +40° |
Anti-Aircraft | 5 x 102-mm (5 x 1) QF 4"/45 Mk. V 4 x 47-mm (4 x 1) QF 3-pdr Mk. I Hotchkiss 3 x 40-mm (3 x 1) QF 2-pdr Mk. II |
Torpedo tubes | 12 x 533-mm (4 x 3) |
Broadside | 318 kg |
Armor | |
Belt | 38 - 76 mm |
Deck | 13 - 25 mm |
Gun turret | 25 mm |
Conning tower | 76 mm |
Production | |
Built | 2 |
Total | 2 |
Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
Emerald | I66 | Armstrong | 23/09/1918 | 19/05/1920 | 14/01/1926 | 09/1944 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Enterprise | I52 | John Brown | 28/06/1918 | 23/12/1919 | 07/04/1926 | 16/10/1944 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Euphrates | Fairfield | 1918 | - | - | - | Cancelled |