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| Tonnage | 10,900 tons standard displacement |
| Dimensions | 584'4" by 67'6" by 20'6" 178.10m by 20.57m by 12.34m |
| Maximum speed | 31.5 knots |
| Complement | 679 |
| Aircraft |
1 catapult 1 seaplane |
| Armament | 4x2 8"/50
guns 4x2 4"/45 dual-purpose guns 2x8 2pdr AA guns 2x4 0.50 machine guns |
| Protection | 4.5" (114mm) belt (machinery) 1.5" (38mm) deck (machinery) 4" (102mm) box (magazines) 3" (76mm) deck (magazines) 1" (25mm) bulkheads 1.5" (38mm) deck (steering) 1" (25mm) turret 1" (25mm) barbette 1" (25mm) bridge 5'3" (1.6m) torpedo bulges |
| Machinery |
4-shaft Parsons geared turbines
(80,000 shp) 8 Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
| Bunkerage | 3400 tons fuel oil |
| Range | 10,400 nautical miles (19,300km) at 14 knots |
Also known as the County class, the Kents were built in 1928. They were notable for a failed attempt to give their main armament a useful antiaircraft capability, by designing the turrets so that the main guns could be elevated to 70°. Their armor protection was originally badly arranged and barely adequate against 6" gunfire, constituting just 10% of the displacement, but was considerably increased during modernization in 1936-1937. They were disliked by the Royal Navy because they had large crews and were unsuited for "showing the flag," the Navy's primary peacetime mission.
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Cornwall |
1942-3-26 |
Sunk 1942-5-5 off Ceylon |
References
Gogin (2010; accessed 2012-12-25)
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