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HMS Cumberland Laid Down : 18th October 1924 Launched : 16th March 1926 Completed : 23rd January 1928 Type : Cruiser Class : Kent Builder : Vickers Armstrong Country : UK Pennants : 57, C177, C57 Fate : Scrapped 1959 | |
HMS Cumberland built at Vickers Armstrong at Barrow and launched 16th March 1926. Served in the South Atlantic 1939-1941, Home Fleet 1941-44, Eastern Fleet 1944-45 and East Indies in 1945. HMS Cumberland converted to a trials vessel in 1949 and finally scrapped in Newport on 3rd November 1959. Displacement: 9,750 tons Speed: 31.5kt Complement: 679 increasing to 710 as Flagship. Armament: Eight 8 inch guns in twin turrets. Four 4 inch anti-aircraft guns in single mountings and eight 2pdr anti-aircraft guns in single mountings plus eight 0.5 machine guns in pairs. Eight 21 inch torpedo tubes. 1 aircraft and rotating catapult. |
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She entered service in the Royal Navy on 8 December 1927, serving on the China Station with the 5th Cruiser Squadron until 1935, when she underwent a refit at Chatham until 1936, which added more armour and a fixed catapult and hangar for two Walrus aircraft. Torpedo tubes were removed, the four single 4" guns replaced by four twin 4" mountings and the single 2pdr guns replaced by two quadruple 2pdr mountings. The hull had to be cut down aft in order to balance the weight increase. | |
At the start of the Second World War in 1939, CUMBERLAND was part of Force G, the South American Division. At the start of December she was undergoing self-refit in the Falkland Islands, thus depriving the force of their strongest unit. Without her, HMS EXETER, AJAX and ACHILLES engaged the German raider ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE in the Battle of the River Plate on 13 December. CUMBERLAND received a garbled indication that they had sighted the enemy and moved north to reinforce, arriving at the River Plate on 14 December, after high-speed steaming for 34 hours. The ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE had entered neutral Montevideo and remained trapped there, as CUMBERLAND along with AJAX and ACHILLES patrolled the estuary, resulting in the ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE’s crew scuttling her on 17 December. | |
In October 1941 CUMBERLAND joined the 1st Cruiser Squadron Home Fleet escorting the Russian Convoys until January 1944 when she transferred to the Far East, as part of 4th Cruiser Squadron in the Eastern Fleet. She returned to the United Kingdom in November 1945 and transported troops until June 1946, when she went into reserve until 1949. | |
She then refitted at Devonport (1949-1951) as a trials cruiser, and from 1951 to 1959 she tested new weapons, radars and other new equipment. By the late 1950s, with almost every other pre-war ship scrapped, she was the oldest active warship in the Navy. For the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate, CUMBERLAND played herself (being partly disarmed). She left active service for a second time in January 1959 and arrived at Newport on 3 November 1959 for breaking up by Cashmore. |
HMS Cumberland Photos for Sale |
HMS Cumberland, 1928. | HMS Cumberland, 1938. | HMS Cumberland, November 1945. | HMS Cumberland, June 1957. | HMS Cumberland, laid up, May 1959. |
HMS Cumberland, 1943. | Crew of HMS Cumberland photographed at the China Station during the 1930s | HMS Cumberland pictured in August 1932. | HMS Cumberland | Crew of HMS Cumberland in the 1930s |
Painting HMS Cumberland, 1930s. | HMS Cumberland. | HMS Cumberland. | HMS Cumberland at Wei-Hai-Wei. | HMS Cumberland. |
HMS Cumberland | HMS Cumberland | A landing party from HMS Cumberland. |
Other images featuring this ship : | |
HMS Bermuda HMS Cumberland behind. Plymouth, 8th July 1948. | HMS Ark Royal with HMS Cumberland and HMS Gambia. |
Timeline Entries : | |||
18th October 1924 - Laid down Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 16th March 1926 - Launched 16th March 1926 - Pennant Number 57 23rd February 1928 - Commissioned 20th April 1932 - Refitting at Hong Kong 1st October 1932 - Capt. B. Egerton in Command 1st October 1932 - 5th Cruiser Squadron, China Station 22nd February 1933 - Recommissioned 15th March 1933 - Arrived Portsmouth and sailed for Gibralrar and China 7th April 1933 - Arrived Colombo 15th April 1933 - Arrived Singapore 19th April 1933 - Sailed Singapore for Hong Kong 24th April 1933 - Arrived Hong Kong 6th August 1933 - Sailed Hankow for Wusang 11th August 1933 - Arrived Wei Hai Wei 11th August 1933 - Capt, C.H.G. Benson in Command 14th August 1933 - Sailed Tsingtao for Wei Hai Wei 26th October 1933 - Sailed Yokohama for Kobe 10th November 1933 - Sailed Myajima for Hong Kong 15th December 1933 - Sailed Shanghai for Hong Kong 15th December 1933 - Capt. C.H.G. Benson in Command 29th March 1934 - Sailed Hong Kong for Amoy 29th March 1934 - Capt. C.H.G. Benson in Command 30th March 1934 - Arrived Amoy 3rd April 1934 - Sailed Amoy 6th April 1934 - Arrived Nimrod Sound 7th April 1934 - Sailed Amoy for Shanghai 9th April 1934 - Sailed Nimrod Sound 10th April 1934 - Arrived Shanghai 10th April 1934 - Arrived Shanghai 24th April 1934 - Sailed Shanghai 24th April 1934 - Sailed Shanghai for Tsingtao 26th April 1934 - Arrived Tsingtao 30th April 1934 - On the China Station 1st May 1934 - Sailed Tsingtao to Wei Hai Wei 10th May 1934 - At Wei Hai Wei July 1934 - Jul 1934 At Wei Hai Wei 30th July 1934 - Arrived Peitaho 19th October 1934 - Arrived Wei Hai Wei 19th October 1934 - 5th Cruiser Squadron 19th October 1934 - Arrived Wei Hai Wei 22nd October 1934 - Sailed Wei Hai Wei for Shanghai 15th November 1934 - Sailed Shanghai 1st December 1934 - Arrived Saigon 7th December 1934 - Sailed Saigon 9th December 1934 - Arrived Singapore 18th December 1934 - Sailed Singapore for Colombo 18th December 1934 - Sailed Singapore 22nd December 1934 - Arrived Colombo 23rd December 1934 - Arrived Colombo 27th December 1934 - Sailed Colombo 1st January 1935 - Arrived Aden 2nd January 1935 - Sailed Aden for Port Said 2nd January 1935 - Arrived Aden 3rd January 1935 - Sailed Aden 6th January 1935 - Arrived Port Said 7th January 1935 - Arrived Port Said 8th January 1935 - Sailed Port Said 11th January 1935 - Arrived Malta 13th January 1935 - Sailed Malta 16th January 1935 - Arrived Gibraltar 17th January 1935 - Sailed Gibraltar 20th January 1935 - Arrived Sheerness 26th December 1935 - Sailed Colombo for Aden 9th September 1936 - Arrived Gibraltar 11th September 1936 - Sailed Gibraltar 25th September 1936 - Sailed Aden 25th September 1936 - Sailed Aden 3rd June 1937 - Arrived Wei Hai Wei 23rd July 1937 - Sailed Wei Hai Wei 2nd August 1937 - Sailed Chinwangtao 4th August 1937 - Arrived Tsingtao 4th August 1937 - Arrived Tsingtao 13th August 1937 - Sailed Tsingtao for Wei Hai Wei 10th October 1937 - Arrived Swatoe and sailed for Hong Kong January 1938 - 4th Cruiser Squadron, China Station 23rd February 1938 - Commissioned 10th March 1938 - Arrived Hong Kong 1st April 1938 - Sailed Hong Kong for Shanghai 12th September 1938 - Arrived Wei Hai Wei 1st November 1938 - Capt. J.C. Leach in Command 1st November 1938 - Arrived Spithead 2nd November 1938 - Arrived Sheerness and refit at Chatham 15th February 1939 - Capt. Walter Herman Gordon Fallowfield in Command 30th March 1939 - Sailed Portland for Portsmouth 31st March 1939 - Arrived Portland 27th April 1939 - Arrived Sheerness 7th June 1939 - Arrived Portland 29th July 1939 - Sailed Sheerness August 1939 - 2nd Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet 1st August 1939 - Arrived Invergordon 24th August 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow 26th August 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow for Plymouth 28th August 1939 - Arrived Plymouth 31st August 1939 - Sailed Plymouth for Freetown 31st August 1939 - Sailed Devonport for South America via Freetown 31st August 1939 - Sailed Plymouth en route to the South America Station. 2nd September 1939 - South American Division, Port Stanley in the Falklands 2nd October 1939 - Operating as a Hunter Force 2nd October 1939 - After a sweep in the area of Ascension Island, arrived at Freetown. 3rd October 1939 - Sailed Freetown for South America 27th October 1939 - Joined Exeter and Achilles 10th November 1939 - Sailed Buenos Aires patrolling en route to Capetown 18th November 1939 - Diverted to Rio de Janeiro 22nd November 1939 - Sailed Rio de Janeiro Rio de la Plata 23rd November 1939 - Force G. Along the east coast of South America 1st December 1939 - At Rio de la Plata 2nd December 1939 - When relieved, Patrolled southward before entering Port Stanley 5th December 1939 - Intercepted German steamer Ussukuma 7th December 1939 - On patrol in the Falkland Island area 9th December 1939 - Arrived Falkland Islands. Left late that morning to Rio de la Plata 12th December 1939 - In the Falklands, boiler cleaning and refitting on short notice 14th December 1939 - Joined HMS Ajax and off Montevideo 24th December 1939 - Arrived Falkland Islands 29th December 1939 - Sailed Port William, Falklands for Simonstown, via Tristan da Cunha 11th January 1940 - Arrived Simonstown for docking and refit February 1940 - Capt. the Hon. Guy Herbrand Edward Russell in Command 10th February 1940 - Completed Docking and refit at Simonstown 13th February 1940 - Force H 4th March 1940 - Saileded Freetown. 4th December 1941 - Capt. Alexander Henry Maxwell-Hyslop in Command 21st May 1943 - Arrived Scapa Flow 1st June 1943 - Anchored Eyla Bay 7th June 1943 - Sailed Eyla Bay 14th June 1943 - Arrived Scapa Flow 23rd December 1943 - Capt. William York La Roche Beverley, RN 10th July 1944 - Capt. Philip King Enright in Command 8th April 1945 - Sailed Trincomalee for North West coast of Sumatra October 1952 - At Invergordon 30th September 1954 - Exercise Morning Mist 11th June 1956 - Sailed Plymouth for trials in the Mediterranean 26th September 1956 - Arrived Plymouth after completing trials in the Mediterranean 26th September 1956 - Capt W.J. Lamb in Command 1st October 1956 - Taken in hand at Plymouth 18th July 1958 - Sailed Gibraltar for Malta 3rd November 1959 - Broken up at Cashmore, Newport |
HMS Cumberland Artwork Collection |
Richelieu and HMS Cumberland 1945 by Ivan Berryman. |
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