HMS Charybdis (88)

Charybdis underway, February 1943
History
United Kingdom
Name	Charybdis
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	9 November 1939
Launched	17 September 1940
Completed	3 December 1941
Identification	Pennant number: 88
Fate	Sunk during the Battle of Sept-Îles, 23 October 1943
Badge	On a Field White, issuant from a whirlpool in base a fig tree Proper, suspended from the branches a bat inverted Gold.
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Dido-class light cruiser
Displacement	5,600 tons (standard) 6,975 tons (full load)
Length	485 ft (148 m) pp 512 ft (156 m) (o/a)
Beam	50 ft 6 in (15.39 m)
Draught	14.3 ft (4.4 m)
Installed power	4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 62,000 shp (46 MW)
Propulsion	4 shafts; 4 geared steam turbines
Speed	32.25 knots (59.73 km/h; 37.11 mph)
Range	6,824 km (4,240 miles) at 16 knots
Complement	480
Armament	8 x 4.5 in DP dual guns, 1 x 4 in (102 mm) starshell gun, 8 x 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon single guns, 2 x 2-pounder (40 mm) 'pom-poms' single guns, 2 x 21 inch (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 3 in (76 mm), Deck: 1 in (25 mm), Magazines: 2 in (51 mm), Bulkheads: 1 in (25 mm) Turrets: ½ inch

HMS Charybdis was a Dido-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War and was sunk with heavy loss of life by German torpedo boats in an action in the English Channel in October 1943.