Class | Bellona |
Type | Anti-Aircraft Cruiser |
Year | 1943 |
Crew | 530 |
Dimensions | |
Length | 156.1 m (pp) 147.8 m |
Beam | 15.4 m |
Draught | 5.4 m |
Displacement | |
Empty | 5,950 t |
Loaded | 7,350-7,410 t |
Performance | |
Speed | 59 km/h |
Range | 5,417 km @ 37 km/h |
Machinery | |
Shafts | 4 |
Turbines | 4 x Geared steam 62,000 hp Parsons |
Boilers | 4 x Admiralty |
Fuel | Oil: 1,042-1,100 t |
Armament | |
Main | 8 x 133-mm/50 (4 x 2) QF 5.25"/50 Mk. I -5° / +70° |
Anti-Aircraft | |
Torpedo tubes | 6 x 533-mm (2 x 3) |
Armor | |
Belt | 76 mm |
Bulkhead | 25 mm |
Deck | 25 mm |
Barbettes | 13 - 19 mm |
Gun turret | 25 - 38 mm |
Production | |
Built | 5 |
Total | 5 |
Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
Bellona | 63 | Fairfield | 30/11/1939 | 29/09/1942 | 29/10/1943 | 17/04/1946 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Black Prince | 81 | Harland & Wolff | 02/11/1939 | 27/08/1942 | 20/11/1943 | 01/07/1946 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Diadem | 84 | Hawthorn Leslie | 15/12/1939 | 26/08/1942 | 06/01/1944 | 1950 | Transferred | ||
Royalist | 89 | Scotts | 21/03/1940 | 30/05/1942 | 10/09/1943 | 09/07/1956 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Spartan † | 95 | Vickers-Armstrong | 21/12/1939 | 27/08/1942 | 10/08/1943 | 29/01/1944 | † | Loss by missile (aircraft) |
Ship | Code | Former | Code | Comm | Decomm | Fate | |||
Bellona | 63 | Bellona | 63 | 17/04/1946 | 04/1956 | Returned | |||
Black Prince | 81 | Black Prince | 81 | 01/07/1946 | 01/04/1961 | Returned | |||
Royalist | C89 | Royalist | 89 | 09/07/1956 | 04/06/1966 | Returned | |||
Babur / Jahangir | C84 | Diadem | 84 | 29/02/1956 | 1961 | Sold/Scrapped |