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DORSETSHIRE

HMS Dorsetshire was a British Dorsetshire Class cruiser of 9975 tons displacement launched in 1929. HMS Dorsetshire carried a crew of 650 and was powered by eight Admiralty 3-drum type oil fuelled boilers providing a top speed of just under 33 knots. Armaments consisted of eight 8-inch guns; eight 4-inch anti-aircraft guns; four 3-pdr guns and sixteen smaller guns and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes arranged in two quadruple mounts. An aircraft was also carried. HMS Dorsetshire was sunk in the Bay of Bengal by Japanese aircraft in April 1942.
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