HMS
Dorsetshire naval art print gallery, featuring naval cruiser prints by
artist Ivan Berryman. Gallery of cruiser prints by Ivan Berryman
depicting the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire. This gallery
includes all naval art prints and naval paintings by Ivan Berryman which
show HMS Dorsetshire.
HMS Dorsetshire. built at Portsmouth Dockyard
(Cammell
laird) and launched 29th January 1929 and completed 30th September
1930. she was part of the class which included HMS Norfolk, (two
other ships were planned but were cancelled in 1930, they were to be HMS
Northumberland and HMS Surrey) She carried a seaplane in1 931
and had a catapult added in 1932. At the outbreak of world war two, HMS
Dorsetshire served in the east Indies in 1939, then to the South Atlantic
in 1940 - 1941. she took part in the final action against the Bismarck
firing 254 shells and three torpedoes of which two finally sank the German
battleship. In1942 HMS Dorsetshire went to t he eastern Fleet and was
bombed by Japanese aircraft of West of Ceylon and sank, 5th April 1942.
Displacement:
9,975 tons (Dorsetshire), Speed:
32kt Complement: 650 to 710
Armament:
Eight 8 inch guns in pairs. Eight 4 inch anti-aircraft guns in pairs and
sixteen 2pdr anti-aircraft guns in pairs as well as eight 0.5 inch machine
guns in pairs. Eight 21 inch torpedo tubes in pairs and 1
aircraft.
