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HMS Ajax |
Name: HMS Ajax Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness Laid down: 7 February 1933 Launched: 1 March 1934 Commissioned: 3 June 1935[1] Recommissioned: 11 January 1938 Decommissioned: February 1948 Identification: Pennant number: 22 Motto: Nec Quisquam Nisi Ajax (Latin: "None but Ajax can overcome Ajax")[2] Fate: Scrapped in 1949 General characteristics Class and type: Leander-class light cruiser Displacement: 7,270 tons standard 9,740 tons full load Length: 554.9 ft (169.1 m) Beam: 56 ft (17 m) Draught: 19.1 ft (5.8 m) Installed power: 72,000 shaft horsepower (54,000 kW) Propulsion: Four Parsons geared steam turbines Six Admiralty 3-drum oil-fired boilers Four shafts Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h) Range: 5,730 nmi (10,610 km; 6,590 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) Complement: peacetime 550 wartime 680 Sensors and processing systems: type 284/286 air search radar type 273/271 surface search type 285 6 inch (152 mm) fire control type 282 40 mm fire control Armament: Original configuration: 8 (4x2)[3] BL 6-inch (150 mm) Mk XXIII guns[4] 4 ? QF 4-inch (100 mm) Mk V guns 12 ? Vickers .50 machine guns 8 ? 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes By 1945: 8 (4x2) 6 in (152 mm) 8 (4x2) QF 4-inch (100 mm) Mk XVI guns 16 ? 40 mm Bofors guns 8 ? 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (quadruple mounts) Armour: 4 in (102 mm) main belt 2.5 in (64 mm) ends 1.25 to 2 in (32 to 51 mm) deck 1 in (25 mm) turrets Aircraft carried: One catapult-launched Fairey Seafox, replaced by a Supermarine Walrus Service record Operations: River Plate 1939 Mediterranean 1940-41 Matapan 1941 Greece 1941 Crete 1941 Malta Convoys 1941 Aegean 1944 Normandy 1944 South France 1944 |
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Aggiunta il | 23/06/2018 |
Dimensioni | 1200 x 560 |
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