&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Dublin.jpg) Postcard of Dublin, probably from before the First World War
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Dublin |
| Namesake | Dublin |
| Builder | William Beardmore & Company, Dalmuir |
| Laid down | 3 January 1911 |
| Launched | 30 April 1912 |
| Commissioned | March 1913 |
| Out of service | 1924 |
| Fate | Scrapped, July 1926 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Town-class light cruiser |
| Displacement | 5,400 long tons (5,500 t) |
| Length | 457 ft (139.3 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 49 ft (14.9 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m) |
| Depth | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 4 screws; 2 steam turbine sets |
| Speed | 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph) |
| Range | 4,460 nmi (8,260 km; 5,130 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 475 |
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HMS Dublin, together with Chatham and Southampton, was a Town-class light cruiser of the Chatham subgroup, each costing an average £334,053.