HMS Penelope (1914)

	HMS Penelope (1914) image
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Penelope
Namesake	Penelope
Builder	Vickers Limited
Laid down	1 February 1913
Launched	25 August 1914
Commissioned	December 1914
Identification	Pennant number: 8A (1914); 92 (Jan 18); 17 (Apr 18); 65 (Nov 19)
Fate	Sold for scrap, October 1924
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Arethusa-class light cruiser
Displacement	3,512 long tons (3,568 t)
Length	410 ft (125.0 m) p/p; 436 ft (132.9 m) o/a;
Beam	39 ft (11.9 m)
Draught	15 ft 7 in (4.75 m) (mean, deep load)
Installed power	40,000 shp (30,000 kW); 8 × Yarrow boilers;
Propulsion	4 × shafts; 4 × steam turbines
Speed	28.5 kn (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	270
Armament	2 × single BL 6 in (152 mm) Mk XII guns; 6 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) Mk V guns; 1 × single QF 3-pounder 47 mm (1.9 in) anti-aircraft gun; 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Waterline belt: 1–3 in (25–76 mm); Deck: 1 in (25 mm);

HMS Penelope was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She fought in the First World War, following the war, she was scrapped.

^ Colledge, J J (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 47.
^ Dodson, Aidan (2024). "The Development of the British Royal Navy's Pennant Numbers Between 1919 and 1940". Warship International. 61 (2): 134–66.