HMS York (90)

York at anchor, 1930
History
United Kingdom
NameYork
Ordered21 October 1926
BuilderPalmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow
Laid down16 May 1927
Launched17 July 1928
Commissioned1 May 1930
IdentificationPennant number: 90
Fate
  • Sunk, 22 May 1941
  • Scrapped beginning 3 March 1952
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeYork-class heavy cruiser
Displacement
Length575 ft (175.3 m)
Beam57 ft (17.4 m)
Draught20 ft 3 in (6.2 m)
Installed power
Propulsion4 shafts, geared steam turbines
Speed32.25 knots (59.73 km/h; 37.11 mph)
Range10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement628
Armament
Armour

HMS York was the lead ship of her class of two heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She mostly served on the North America and West Indies Station before World War II. Early in the war the ship escorted convoys in the Atlantic and participated in the Norwegian Campaign in 1940. York was transferred to the Mediterranean theatre in late 1940 where she escorted convoys and the larger ships of the Mediterranean Fleet. She was wrecked in an attack by Italian explosive motorboats of the 10th Flotilla MAS at Suda Bay, Crete, in March 1941. The ship's wreck was salvaged in 1952 and subsequently scrapped.