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Class and type Leander-class light cruiser
Builder: Cammell Laird,
Laid down 11 June 1931
Launched 1 September 1932
Commissioned 10 Oct 1933
Out of service loaned to Royal New Zealand Navy 1 October 1936
Fate: Sold to Indian Navy 5 July 1948
Displacement: 7,270 tons standard 9,740 tons full load
Length: 554.9 ft (169.1 m)
Beam:
Draught: 19.1 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion: Four Parsons geared steam turbines. Six boilers. Four shafts 72,000 shp
Speed: 32.5 knots (
Complement: Peacetime 550. Wartime 680
Armament: Original configuration: 8 ×
12 × 0.5 in machine guns 8 ×
Armour:
Aircraft carried: One catapult-launched aircraft. Original type was a Fairey Seafox catapult and aircraft later replaced with Supermarine Walrus
Cruiser Achilles saw intensive action in the south Atlantic from October 1939 to January 1940 in search for German merchant ships and in the Battle of the River Plate.
Achilles was originally built for the Royal Navy, and was commissioned as HMS Achilles on 10 October 1933. She would serve with the Royal Navy's New Zealand Division from 31 March 1937 up to the creation of the Royal New Zealand Navy, into which she was transferred in September 1941 and renamed HMNZS Achilles. Her crew was approximately 60 per cent from New Zealand.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Achilles began patrolling the west coast of South America looking for German merchant ships, but by 22 October 1939 she had arrived at the Falkland Islands, where she was assigned to the South American Division under Commodore Henry Harwood and allocated to Force G (Exeter and Cumberland).
In the early morning of 13 December 1939, a force consisting of Achilles, Ajax and Exeter detected smoke on the horizon, which was confirmed at 06:16 to be a pocket battleship, thought to be the Admiral Scheer but which turned out to be the Admiral Graf Spee. A fierce battle ensued, at a range of approximately 20 kilometres (11 nmi). Achilles suffered some damage. In the exchange of fire, four crew were killed, her captain, W. E. Parry, was wounded; 36 of Graf Spee’s crew were killed.
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