Warships of Interest - HMS Kent (54) Heavy RN Cruiser - Possible Game Specs / Stats

HMS Kent (54) Heavy RN Cruiser

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HMS Kent, pennant number 54, was a County-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy. 
In November 1939 she joined with the French heavy cruiser Suffren and the Australian destroyers Voyager and Vampire to hunt for the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the East Indies and then was reassigned to escort troop convoys in the Indian Ocean in January 1940.

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HULL:
	Hit points – 30,200.  Armour – 16~110 mm.
MAIN BATTERY:
	4x2 BL 203 mm/50 MKI. Firing range – 16.2 km.  Maximum HE shell damage - 2900, COF – 18%.  Maximum AP shell damage - 4600.  Reload time - 14.5 s.  180 degree turn time - 30 s.  Maximum dispersion - 154 m.  HE initial velocity - 855 m/s.  AP initial velocity - 855 m/s.  Sigma value – 2.00.
TORPEDOES:
	2x4 533mm MKIX -Damage - 15,866 hp. -Reload - 72.0 s. -Speed - 61.0 kts. -Distance - 8.0 km. -Visibility - 1.3 km.
SECONDARY ARMAMENT:
	4 X 2 BL 102mm/45 QF MKXIX. -Range - 5 km,  -DPS - 1500. -COF - 6% -Reload - 3 s.
ANTI AIRCRAFT:
	4x2 102mm/45 QF MKXIX. -Average DPS 37.6. -Base Range 5.01km. 2x8 40mm Vickers 2-pdr. QF MKVIII. -Average DPS 39.6. -Base Range 2.49km. 7x2 20mm Oerlikon MKV. -Average DPS 42.7. -Base Range 2.01km. 6x1 20mm Oerlikon MKIV. -Average DPS 21.6. -Base Range 2.01km.
MANOEUVRABILITY:
	Maximum speed - 31.5 kt.  Turning circle radius - 650 m.  Rudder shift time – 11.3 s.
CONCEALMENT:
	Surface detectability – 11.6 km.  Air detectability – 7.83 km.  Detectability after firing main guns in smoke – 7.48 km.

AVAILABLE CONSUMABLES:
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Her Final Days.

On 17 July 1944, the ship was formed part of the covering force protecting three British aircraft carriers flying off aircraft to attack the German battleship Tirpitz during Operation Mascot. Kent escorted three aircraft carriers that attacked the German airfield at Kristiansand on 10 August. She escorted two carriers on 12 September while their aircraft attacked German shipping near Stadlandet. On the night of 13/14 November 1944, as flagship of Rear-Admiral Rhoderick McGrigor during Operation Counterblast, the ship, with the light cruiser Bellona and four destroyers, attacked Convoy KS.357 off Listerfjord, south-east of Egersund, Norway. The convoy consisted of four freighters escorted by the minesweepers M.416, M.427 and four submarine chasers. Opening fire at 2300 hrs, the cruisers and destroyers sank two of the freighters and all the escorts above except one unidentified vessel.

With the Naval War in the Atlantic winding down, the ship's age and material condition, and a shortage of crews to man her; Kent was paid off in January 1945 and remained in reserve for several years until she was used as a target.

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