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 | William Beardmore & Company | 24 Feb, 1927 | 5 Jul, 1928 | Broken up 1955 | |
| Sussex | Hawthorn Leslie & Company | 1 Feb, 1927 | 22 Feb, 1928 | Broken up 1950 | |
Design and Construction
Equipment
In 1928, it was decided that each should be supplied with two Torpedo Control Discs Mark II** (three for those ships operating as flagship), with deflection etchings for their 21-in Mark VII torpedoes, despite growing dissatisfaction at the design of that disc.[1]
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
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1928. p. 51.
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