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|15 Sep, 1924
 
|30 Mar, 1926
 
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|Broken up 1948
 
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|9 Oct, 1924
 
|11 Mar, 1926
 
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|Sunk 5 May, 1942
 
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|[[Vickers-Armstrong]], Barrow
 
|18 Oct, 1924
 
|16 Mar, 1926
 
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|Broken up 1959
 
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|[[Chatham Royal Dockyard]]
 
|15 Nov, 1924
 
|16 Mar, 1926
 
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|Broken up 1948
 
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|[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]
 
|30 Sep, 1924
 
|16 Feb, 1926
 
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|Broken up 1948
 
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|[[John Brown]]
 
|26 Aug, 1925
 
|17 Mar, 1927
 
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|Broken up
 
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|[[John Brown]]
 
|9 Sep, 1925
 
|31 May, 1927
 
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Revision as of 12:20, 1 May 2015

Seven Kent class cruisers were completed as the first post-war construction of the type, with two of the vessels going to the Royal Australian Navy.

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


Kent Class Heavy Cruiser
Royal Navy
Berwick Cornwall Cumberland Kent Suffolk
Royal Australian Navy
  Australia Canberra  
<– H.M.S. Hood Major Cruisers (UK) London Class –>