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HMNZS Achilles

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Achilles.
For post-1948 service in the Indian Navy, see INS Delhi (1948).

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Achilles
NamesakeAchilles
BuilderCammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down11 June 1931
Launched1 September 1932
Commissioned10 October 1933
Out of serviceLoaned to Royal New Zealand Navy 1 October 1936
IdentificationPennant number: 70
Honours and
awards		River Plate 1939[1]
FateSold to Indian Navy 5 July 1948
New Zealand
NameHMNZS Achilles
Commissioned1 October 1941
Decommissioned17 September 1946
IdentificationPennant number: 70
Honours and
awards		Guadalcanal 1942-43, Okinawa 1945[1]
FateReturned to Royal Navy 17 September 1946
General characteristics
Class and typeLeander-class light cruiser
Displacement
  • 7,270 tons standard
  • 9,740 tons full load (Oct 1945)
Length555.5 ft (169.3 m)
Beam56 ft (17 m)
Draught19.1 ft (5.8 m)
Installed power73,280 shaft horsepower (54,640 kW)
Propulsion
  • Four Parsons geared steam turbines
  • Six Yarrow boilers
  • Four shafts
Speed32.5 knots (60 km/h)
Range5,730 nmi (10,610 km; 6,590 mi) at 13 kn (24 km/h)
Complement
  • peacetime 550
  • wartime 680
Armament
Armour3 in magazine box

1 inch deck

1 inch turrets
Aircraft carried

HMNZS Achilles was a Leander-class light cruiser, the second of five in the class. She served in the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Second World War. She was launched in 1931 for the Royal Navy, loaned to New Zealand in 1936 and transferred to the new Royal New Zealand Navy in 1941. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, alongside HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter and notable for being the first Royal Navy cruiser to have fire control radar, with the installation of the New Zealand-made SS1 fire-control radar in June 1940.[2]

After Second World War service in the Atlantic and Pacific, she was returned to the Royal Navy. She was sold to the Indian Navy in 1948 and recommissioned as INS Delhi. She was scrapped in 1978.

  1. ^ a b Mason, Geoffrey B. Gordon Smith (ed.). "HMS Achilles - Leander-class Light Cruiser". naval-history.net. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  2. ^ Mason, Geoffrey B. "New Zealand Radar Development". naval-history.net. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

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