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Name | HMS Coventry |
Builder | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne |
Laid down | 4 August 1916 |
Launched | 6 July 1917 |
Commissioned | 21 February 1918 |
Reclassified | Converted to anti-aircraft cruiser before the Second World War |
Fate | Damaged and scuttled 14 September 1942 |
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Class and type | C-class light cruiser |
Displacement | 4,190 tons |
Length | 450 ft (140 m) |
Beam | 43.6 ft (13.3 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
Range | carried 300 tons (950 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
Complement | 327 |
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HMS Coventry was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the English city of Coventry. She was part of the Ceres group of the C-class of cruisers.