HMS Weymouth (1910)

HMS Weymouth was a Town-class light cruiser built by Armstrong Whitworth for the Royal Navy in the 1910s and the name ship of the Weymouth sub-class, a slightly larger and better armed version of the Bristol sub-class that replaced the ten 4-inch guns of the earlier ships with six more 6-inch guns. She was 453 feet long, displaced about 5,275 long tons and made 25.95 knots on trials from Parsons steam turbines on two shafts fed by twelve Yarrow boilers burning both coal and oil. She was laid down at Elswick on 19 January 1910, launched on 18 November and completed in October 1911. She served in the Mediterranean and in August 1914 was sent into the Indian Ocean to hunt the raider Emden, and in 1915 she helped trap the cruiser Koenigsberg in the Rufiji River off East Africa. She later served in the Adriatic and with the Grand Fleet, was damaged by a torpedo from an Austro-Hungarian submarine in October 1918, and was sold for scrap in 1928.