HMAS Adelaide

Survived

Type	Light cruiser
Class	Town
War	Second World War
Main guns	9 × 6″ guns

Old cruiser, laid down in 1915 and not finished until 1922. Helped secure New Caledonia for the Free French in 1940, was in Sydney Harbour during the midget submarine attack, and with the Dutch cruiser Jacob van Heemskerck sank the German blockade runner Ramses in the Indian Ocean in November 1942. Scrapped in 1949.

AWM Caption: "Port bow view of the cruiser HMAS Adelaide. She is shown in her third armament configuration, armed with seven 6 inch and two 4 inch AA guns. Two 6 inch guns have been replaced in the waist by depth charge throwers; one of the guns has been remounted on the centreline aft, replacing a Photo: Australian or US military, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

Original configuration

9 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns
1 × single 3 in (76-mm) AA gun
1 × single 12 pdr (3-inch)field gun
4 × 3 pdr (47 mm (1.9 in)) saluting guns
10 × .303-inch machine guns
2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
2 × depth charge chutes

Armour

3-inch (7.6 cm) side armour-belt over amidships section

Builder	Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Laid down	20 November 1915
Launched	27 July 1918
Commissioned	5 August 1922
Displacement	5,560 long tons (5,650 t)
Length	138.8 m (455 ft)
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Complement	1922: 33 officers and 450 sailors 1941: 26 officers and 436 sailors

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

27 July 1918

Attack on Sydney Harbour

Survived

31 May – 1 June 1942

In the harbour

Fate

Survived

Sold for scrap