Preceded by:
Crown Colony (1940)Succeeded by:
Bellona (1943) | |
| Class | Dido |
| Type | Anti-Aircraft Cruiser |
| Year | 1940 |
| Crew | 480 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 156.1 m (pp) 147.8 m |
| Beam | 15.4 m |
| Draught | 5.1 m |
| Displacement | |
| Empty | 5,600 t |
| Loaded | 6,850 t |
| Performance | |
| Speed | 60 km/h |
| Range | 5,417 km @ 37 km/h |
| 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 | 10 x 133-mm/50 (5 x 2) QF 5.25"/50 Mk. I -5° / +70° |
| Anti-Aircraft | |
| Torpedo tubes | 6 x 533-mm (2 x 3) |
| Armor | |
| Belt | 76 mm |
| Bulkhead | 25 mm |
| Deck | 25 mm |
| Barbettes | 13 - 19 mm |
| Gun turret | 25 - 38 mm |
| Production | |
| Built | 11 |
| Total | 11 |
| Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
| Dido (I): | |||||||||
|
Argonaut | 61 | Cammell Laird | 21/11/1939 | 06/09/1941 | 08/08/1942 | 06/07/1946 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Bonaventure † | 31 | Scotts | 30/08/1937 | 19/04/1939 | 24/05/1940 | 31/03/1941 | † | Loss by submarine |
|
Cleopatra | 33 | Hawthorn Leslie | 05/01/1939 | 27/03/1940 | 05/12/1941 | 15/02/1953 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Dido | 37 | Cammell Laird | 20/10/1937 | 18/07/1939 | 30/09/1940 | 10/1947 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Euryalus | 42 | Chatham DYd | 21/10/1937 | 06/06/1939 | 30/06/1941 | 11/1954 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Hermione † | 74 | A. Stephens | 06/10/1937 | 18/05/1939 | 25/03/1941 | 16/06/1942 | † | Loss by submarine |
|
Naiad † | 93 | Hawthorn Leslie | 26/08/1937 | 03/02/1939 | 24/07/1940 | 11/03/1942 | † | Loss by submarine |
|
Phoebe | 43 | Fairfield | 02/09/1937 | 25/03/1939 | 30/09/1940 | 14/03/1951 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Sirius | 82 | Portsmouth DYd | 06/04/1938 | 18/09/1940 | 06/05/1942 | 04/1949 | Sold/Scrapped | |
| Dido (II): | |||||||||
|
Charybdis † | 88 | Cammell Laird | 09/11/1938 | 17/09/1940 | 03/12/1941 | 23/10/1943 | † | Loss by surface ship |
|
Scylla † | 98 | Scotts | 19/04/1939 | 24/07/1940 | 12/06/1942 | 23/06/1944 | † | Loss by mine |
