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