High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The fifth HMS Nottingham was launched in 1913 and commissioned in 1914. A light Town class light cruiser of 5,440 long tons (5,530 t), 430 ft (130 m) in length and a complement of 401 men, she had 2 in (5.1 cm) thick armour plating and was armed with nine 6 in (150 mm) guns, one 13-pounder anti-aircraft gun and two 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes. Seeing action for the first time off Heligoland on 28 August 1914 as one of eight British light cruisers supported by destroyers and submarines, she entered the Heligoland Bight to intercept German vessels employed on coastal protection duties, an action that developed into the Battle of Heligoland Bight.