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HMS Weymouth (1910)
HMS ''Weymouth'' was a light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. She was the name ship of the ''Weymouth'' sub-class of the ''Town'' class. The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1928.
==Design and description==
The ''Weymouth'' sub-class were slightly larger and improved versions of the preceding ''Bristol'' sub-class with a more powerful armament.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 52〕 They were long overall, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was normal〔Friedman, p. 383〕 and at full load. Twelve Yarrow boilers fed ''Weymouth''s Parsons steam turbines,〔 driving two propeller shafts, that were rated at for a design speed of . The ship reached during her sea trials from .〔Lyon, Part 2, pp. 59–60〕 The boilers used both fuel oil and coal, with of coal and tons of oil carried, which gave a range of at .〔Friedman, p. 383〕
The ''Weymouth''s exchanged the ten guns of the ''Bristol'' sub-class for six additional BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XI guns. Two of these guns were mounted on the centreline fore and aft of the superstructure and two more were mounted on the forecastle deck abreast the bridge. The remaining four guns were positioned on the upper deck in waist mountings. All these guns were fitted with gun shields.〔 Four Vickers 3-pounder (47 mm) saluting guns were also fitted. Their armament was completed by two submerged 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes.〔Lyon, Part 2, pp. 55–57〕
The ''Weymouth''-class ships were considered protected cruisers, with an armoured deck providing protection for the ships' vitals. The armoured deck was thick over the magazines and machinery, over the steering gear and elsewhere. The conning tower was protected by 4 inches of armour, with the gun shields having armour, as did the ammunition hoists.〔Lyon, Part 2, p. 59〕 As the protective deck was at waterline, the ships were given a large metacentric height so that they would remain stable in the event of flooding above the armoured deck. This, however, resulted in the ships rolling badly making them poor gun platforms.〔Brown, p. 63〕 One problem with the armour of the ''Weymouth''s which was shared with the other Town-class ships was the sizable gap between the bottom of the gun shields and the deck, which allowed shell splinters to pass through the gap, allowing large numbers of leg injuries in the ships' gun crews.〔Lyon, Part 2, p. 57〕
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