HMS Coventry
naval art prints. Gallery of British naval prints by Ivan Berryman
depicting the cruiser HMS Coventry. This gallery includes every naval
art prints and original naval painting by Ivan Berryman which features HMS
Coventry.
HMS Coventry built by Swan Hunter at
Wallsend was initially going to be called HMS Corsair. and laid down on
the 4th August 1916, and launched 6th July 1917 completed for naval
service in February 1918. HMS Coventry joined the 5th Light Cruiser
squadron in February 1918 till May 1919, and served in the Baltic in
this time. Commissioned in may 1919 into the Atlantic fleet, until in 1920
when HMS Coventry became the HQ ship for naval Inter allied Disarmament
Commission. Went into refit in late 1920 once completed she joined
the 2nd Light cruiser squadron and flagship to the Rear admiral Atlantic
Fleet. A Torpedo Explosion while in Malta in March1923 caused the death of
two crew. At the outbreak of world war two HMS Coventry was serving
with the Home Fleet between 1939 and 1940, moving to the Mediterranean
fleet in 1940 until being sunk off Tobruk on the 14th September 1942 by
German and Italian aircraft.
Displacement:
4,190 tons Speed: 29kt Complement: 400
increasing to 437 as a Flagship.
Armament:
Ten 4 inch anti-aircraft guns, sixteen 2pdr anti-aircraft guns.
eight 0.5 inch machine gun
