CA - HMS Norfolk (78)

     
Name / Name : , HMS Norfolk
Type / Type : heavy cruiser
Class / Class : County And/Dorsetshire
Code name / Pennant number : 78
the Founding of the keel / Laid down : 08.07.1927
Run to the water / Launched : 12.12.1928
entry into service / commissioned by : 30.04.1930
withdrawn from service / End of service : may 1949 (sold for scrap 03.01.1950)
Shipyard / Built by : Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. in Govan,Scotland
Duration / Length : (m) 192,86
Width / Beam : (m) 20,12
Draught / Draft : (m) of 4.88
6,60 (max.)
Displacement standard /
Displacement, standard :
(t)
9925
a Displacement of the maximum /
Displacement, maximal :
(t)
13290
Armament / Armament : 8 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (4xII)
4x 102 mm/45 Mk V (4xI)
4x 40mm/39 Mk II (AA/4xI)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)

from 1933:
8 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (4xII)
4x 102 mm/45 Mk V (4xI)
4x 40mm/39 Mk II (AA/4xI)
8 machine gun 12.7 mm/62 Vickers Mk III (AA/2xIV)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)

from 1937:
8 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (4xII)
8 102 mm/45 Mk XVI (4xII)
16x 40 mm/39 Mk VIII (AA/4xIV)
8 machine gun 12.7 mm/62 Vickers Mk III (AA/2xIV)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)

from June 1940:
8 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (4xII)
8 102 mm/45 Mk XVI (4xII)
16x 40 mm/39 Mk VIII (AA/4xIV)
8 machine gun 12.7 mm/62 Vickers Mk III (AA/2xIV)
2x rocket post (AA)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)

from September 1941:
8 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (4xII)
8 102 mm/45 Mk XVI (4xII)
16x 40 mm/39 Mk VIII (AA/4xIV)
6 20 mm/65 Oerlikon (AA/6xI)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)

from October 1942:
8 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (4xII)
8 102 mm/45 Mk XVI (4xII)
16x 40 mm/39 Mk VIII (AA/4xIV)
9x 20 mm/65 Oerlikon (AA/9xI)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)

from may 1943:
8 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (4xII)
8 102 mm/45 Mk XVI (4xII)
16x 40 mm/39 Mk VIII (AA/4xIV)
12 20 mm/65 Oerlikon (AA/12xI)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)

from November 1944:
6 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (3xII)
8 102 mm/45 Mk XVI (4xII)
24x 40 mm/39 Mk VIII (AA/6xIV)
32x 20 mm/65 Oerlikon (AA/11xII,10xI)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)

from September 1945:
6 203-mm/50 Mk VIII (3xII)
8 102 mm/45 Mk XVI (4xII)
34x 40 mm/39 Mk VIII (AA/6xIV) and Bofors (AA/10xI)
22x 20 mm/65 Oerlikon (AA/11xII)
8 torpedo launchers 533 (2xIV)
Gear and equipment / Equipment : from 1931:
1x catapult

from November 1940:
1x catapult
1x radar Type 286M - search for airborne targets

from may 1943:
1x radar Type 286M - search for airborne targets

from November 1944:
1x radar Type 274 - artillery
1x radar Type 277 - for the search for surface targets
1x radar Type 282 - artillery
1x radar Type 283 - artillery
1x radar Type 285 - artillery
1x radar Type 293 - for the search for surface targets
Armour / Armour : (mm) side belt: 25, 25 - 111 mm (from 1937)
bulkhead: 25 - 64
ammunition depots: 25 - 111
main deck: 36 - 76
gun turrets: 25
Propulsion / Engines : 4x steam turbine Parsons
8x 3-drum boiler Admiralty
Power / Power : (SHP) 80 000
Screws / Propellers : (pcs) 4
Speed / Speed : (kts) 32,25
fuel Quantity / Fuel : (t) 3190
Range/Range : (miles/kts) 12500/12
2930/31
Aircraft / Aircraft : 2x seaplane Supermarine Walrus
from may 1943: without aircraft
Crew / Crew : 710 (peaceful state)
819 (state of war)
Note / Note : commanders:
Captain And.G.B. Wilson (August 1939 - 12.02.1940)
Captain Alfred Jerome Lucian Phillips (12.02.1940 - 12.03.1942)
Captain Edward Gerald Hyslop Bellars (12.03.1942 - 01.07.1943)
Captain Donald Keppel Bain (01.07.1943 - 26.02.1944)
Commander Alan FitzRoy Campbell (26.02.1944 - 19.04.1944)
Captain N.B.C. Brock (19.04.1944 - 01.09.1944)
Captain John Gerald Yerburgh Loveband (01.09.1944 - ?)

the origin of the name: a county in eastern England




Sources:
PEJČOCH, Ivo, NOVÁK, Zdeněk, HÁJEK, Tomáš: warships[4]. 1.edition. Prague: Our troops p. p. 1993. 374s. ISBN 80-206-0357-3
HRBEK, Ivan HRBEK, Jaroslav: the Fleet of the states participating in the second world war. 1.edition. Prague: Our army, 1994. 232s. ISBN 80-206-0245-3
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www.bismarck-class.dk
www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-06CA-Norfolk.htm
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From 21.01.1940 bolo palubné airplane (Walrus) súčasťou 700. perute námorného air force. The catapult was of the lode odstránený on the jar 1943, at the same time with odstránením catapult sa ended the service of the FAA aboard ships.

Source: David Wragg - the Fleet Air Arm Handbook 1939-1945, Sutton Publishing, ISBN 0-7509-3430-1.
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