WORLD OF WARSHIPS HMS EXETER HEAVY CRUISER

Wallpaper Description:

HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–36, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Station. When World War II began in September 1939, the cruiser was assigned to patrol South American waters against German commerce raiders. Then the Exeter was one of three British cruisers that fought the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, later that year in the Battle of the River Plate. She was severely damaged during the battle, and she was in the shipyard for over a year.

Armament:

Armament:
3 twin 8 in (203 mm) guns
4 single 4 in (102 mm) AA guns
2 single 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
2 triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:
Waterline belt: 3 in (76 mm)
Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm)
Barbettes: 1 in (25 mm)
Gun turrets: 1 in (25 mm)
Magazines: 3–5.5 in (76–140 mm)
Bulkheads: 4.375 in (111 mm)
Aircraft carried: 2 walrus seaplanes
Aviation facilities