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| {{UK-Berwick}}
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|[[Fairfield]]
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|15 Sep, 1924
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|30 Mar, 1926
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|Broken up 1948
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| {{UK-Cornwall}}
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|[[Devonport Royal Dockyard]]
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|9 Oct, 1924
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|11 Mar, 1926
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|Sunk 5 May, 1942
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| {{UK-Cumberland}}
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|[[Vickers-Armstrong]], Barrow
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|18 Oct, 1924
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|16 Mar, 1926
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|Broken up 1959
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| {{UK-Kent}}
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|[[Chatham Royal Dockyard]]
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|15 Nov, 1924
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|16 Mar, 1926
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|Broken up 1948
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| {{UK-Suffolk}}
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|[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]
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|30 Sep, 1924
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|16 Feb, 1926
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|Broken up 1948
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|[[John Brown]]
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|26 Aug, 1925
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|17 Mar, 1927
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|Broken up
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| {{AU-Canberra}}
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|[[John Brown]]
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|9 Sep, 1925
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|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 –>
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