London Class Cruiser (1927)
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Four London class heavy cruisers were completed for the Royal Navy in 1929. They resembled the preceding class, but were about one knot faster and lacked torpedo bulges.
Overview of 4 vessels | |||||
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Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
Devonshire | Devonport Royal Dockyard | 16 Mar, 1926 | 22 Oct, 1927 | Broken up 1954 | |
London | Portsmouth Royal Dockyard | 23 Feb, 1926 | 14 Sep, 1927 | Broken up 1950 | |
Shropshire | Beardmore | 24 Feb, 1927 | 5 Jul, 1928 | Broken up 1955 | |
Sussex | Hawthorn Leslie | 1 Feb, 1927 | 22 Feb, 1928 | Broken up 1950 |
Design and Construction
See Also
- Wikipedia
- Chesneau, Roger (editor) (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
Footnotes
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