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| Class | Bellona |
| Type | Anti-Aircraft Cruiser |
| Year | 1943 |
| Crew | 530 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 512 ft (pp) 485 ft |
| Beam | 50 ft |
| Draught | 18 ft |
| Displacement | |
| Empty | 5,950 t |
| Loaded | 7,350-7,410 t |
| Performance | |
| Speed | 32 kt |
| Range | 2,925 nmi @ 20 kn |
| Machinery | |
| Shafts | 4 |
| Turbines | 4 x Geared steam 62,000 hp Parsons |
| Boilers | 4 x Admiralty |
| Fuel | Oil: 1,042-1,100 t |
| Armament | |
| Main | 8 x 5.25-in/50 (4 x 2) QF 5.25"/50 Mk. I -5° / +70° |
| Anti-Aircraft | |
| Torpedo tubes | 6 x 21-in (2 x 3) |
| Armor | |
| Belt | 3 in |
| Bulkhead | 1 in |
| Deck | 1 in |
| Barbettes | 1 - 1 in |
| Gun turret | 1 - 2 in |
| Production | |
| Built | 5 |
| Total | 5 |
| Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
|
Bellona | 63 | Fairfield | 30/11/1939 | 29/09/1942 | 29/10/1943 | 17/04/1946 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Black Prince | 81 | Harland & Wolff | 02/11/1939 | 27/08/1942 | 20/11/1943 | 01/07/1946 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Diadem | 84 | Hawthorn Leslie | 15/12/1939 | 26/08/1942 | 06/01/1944 | 1950 | Transferred | |
|
Royalist | 89 | Scotts | 21/03/1940 | 30/05/1942 | 10/09/1943 | 09/07/1956 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Spartan † | 95 | Vickers-Armstrong | 21/12/1939 | 27/08/1942 | 10/08/1943 | 29/01/1944 | † | Loss by missile (aircraft) |
| Ship | Code | Former | Code | Comm | Decomm | Fate | |||
 |
Bellona | 63 | |
Bellona | 63 | 17/04/1946 | 04/1956 | Returned | |
|
Black Prince | 81 | |
Black Prince | 81 | 01/07/1946 | 01/04/1961 | Returned | |
|
Royalist | C89 | |
Royalist | 89 | 09/07/1956 | 04/06/1966 | Returned | |
 |
Babur / Jahangir | C84 | |
Diadem | 84 | 29/02/1956 | 1961 | Sold/Scrapped |
