HMS York (90)
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| Career |
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|---|---|
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 16 May 1927 |
| Launched: | 17 July 1928 |
| Commissioned: | 1 May 1930 |
| Fate: | blown up 22 May 1941, broken up 1952 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Standard: 8,390 t Full: 10,410 t |
| Length: | 175.25 m |
| Beam: | 17.58 m |
| Draught: | 6.17 m |
| Propulsion: | 8 boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 4 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MN) |
| Speed: | 32 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 630 |
| Armament: | Main: 6 8-inch (203 mm) in three twin turrets anti-aircraft: 4 (later 8) 4-inch (102mm) (4x1, or 4x2) 2 2-pdr pom-pom (2x1) 1941: 16 2-pdr pom-pom (2x8) 2 20 mm Oerlikon (2x1) Torpedoes: 6 18-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 1 Supermarine Walrus floatplane, 1 catapult |
HMS York (90) was a heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy, one of the group known as the County class cruisers. She was built at Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd, Jarrow and launched in 1928.
She was the lead ship and to some extents a prototype for the planned 5 ships of her class, built to a modified design based on the earlier County classes intended to be built cheaper than the predecessors.
Service
She served on the North American station till the outbreak of the World War II, when she was sent to the Atlantic with the 1st Cruiser Squadron. At the end of the Norway Campaign she was used to evacuate British and French troops from Namsos alongside HMS Devonshire, the French cruiser Montcalm and 3 French transports. She went to the Mediterranean and joined the 3rd Cruiser Squadron on convoy duties. In March 1941 she was hit by an Italian explosive motor boat and was beached at Suda Bay, Crete. Further damage by air attack caused her to be abandoned completely on May 22, 1941. She was later towed to Bari and broken up.See also
See HMS York for other ships of this name.
| County-class cruiser |
| Royal Navy |
| Kent sub-class: Berwick | Cumberland | Cornwall | Kent | Suffolk |
| London sub-class: Devonshire | London | Shropshire | Sussex |
| Dorsetshire sub-class: Dorsetshire | Norfolk |
| York sub-class: Exeter | York |
| Royal Australian Navy |
| Kent sub-class: Australia | Canberra |
| London sub-class: Shropshire (transferred) |
List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy List of major warship classes of the Royal Australian Navy |
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