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Name: DAUNTLESS
Type: Cruiser
Keel: 03/01/1917
Launched: 10/04/1918
Completed: 02/12/1918
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 875
Dimensions: 4850disp - 5925disp, 445.0 x 46.5 x 14.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, SR geared, 40,000shp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 29.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 6 x 1 x 6.0ins, 3 x 1 x 4.0ins AA, 2 x 1 x 2pdr AA guns; 4 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
02/12/1918 British Royal Navy
04/1946 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Danae Class of light cruisers
Completed with a large hangar within the bridge structure (removed in 1920)
07/1928: Badly damaged by grounding off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1929 to 1930: Completely refitted
13/02/1946: Sold for breaking up
04/1946: Broken up by TW Ward Ltd at Inverkeithing


Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo showing hangar is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo without hangar is copyright of the Imperial War Museum