The Town class consisted of 10 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The Towns were designed within the constraints of the London Naval...
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Town-class cruiser can refer to: Town-class cruiser (1910) Town-class cruiser (1936) Town-class destroyer This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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The Town class was a group of twenty-one light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) of the first half of the 20th century...
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21 British and Australian light cruisers Town-class cruiser (1936), a group of 10 British light cruisers Town-class destroyer, a group of American destroyers...
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HMS Belfast (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...
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appeared as smaller derivatives of the 1936 Town-class cruisers. The Fiji-class cruisers however, like the Minotaur class that followed in the middle of the...
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The Leander class was a class of eight light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s that saw service in World War II. They were named after...
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HMS Glasgow (C21) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
HMS Glasgow was a Town-class cruiser commissioned in September 1937. She took part in the Fleet Air Arm raid that crippled the Italian Fleet at Taranto...
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HMS Edinburgh (16) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
Edinburgh was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, which served during the Second World War. She was one of the last two Town class cruisers, which formed...
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HMS Newcastle (C76) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
member of the Southampton subclass of the Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. The first two Town-class were ordered from Vickers Armstrong and John...
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HMS Southampton (83) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
five ships of the Town class of light cruisers. She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland and launched on 10 March 1936. Southampton saw...
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Brooklyn-class cruisers in 1936, and the 8-inch (203 mm)/55 caliber gun Mark 12 introduced with USS Wichita in 1937. The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser designed...
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HMS Birmingham (C19) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
of the first group of five ships of the Town class light cruisers. Birmingham initially joined the 5th Cruiser Squadron on the China Station in January...
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HMS Liverpool (C11) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
named after the port city of Liverpool in north-west England, was a Town-class cruiser of the Royal Navy in service from 1938 to 1952. During the Second...
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HMS Sheffield (C24) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
was the third of ten Town-class light cruisers of the Royal Navy. The ship was laid down in January 1936, launched in July 1936, and commissioned in August...
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The La Galissonnière-class cruisers were commissioned by the French Navy in the 1930s. They were the last French cruisers completed after 1935, until the...
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HMS Manchester (15) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
HMS Manchester was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s, one of three ships in the Gloucester subclass. Completed in 1938...
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HMS Gloucester (62) (category Town-class cruisers (1936))
HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned shortly before...
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the Hawkins class are sometimes named as the "Improved Birminghams", referring to the Birmingham sub-class of the Town-class light cruisers, their design...
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the term first class cruiser being used instead for both armoured cruisers and large protected cruisers. Thus, the first class cruisers built between the...
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The two Niitaka-class cruisers (新高型防護巡洋艦, Niitaka-gata bōgojun'yōkan) were protected cruisers operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Both participated...
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1910 Town-class light cruiser launched in 1913 and sold in 1931. The second HMS Birmingham (C19) was a 1936 Town-class light cruiser launched in 1936 and...
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considerable British design influence resembling contemporary British Town-class cruisers. The boilers were re-arranged into three rooms to give three funnels...
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The Arethusa class was a class of four light cruisers built for the Royal Navy between 1933 and 1937 and that served in World War II. It had been intended...
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light cruisers in the belief that they were good multi-purpose vessels. Unlike the British, who built both long-range cruisers like the Town class for commerce...
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The San Giorgio class consisted of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century. The second...
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was a Town-class cruiser, launched in 1912 and sold in 1926. She fought at the Battle of Jutland. HMS Southampton (C83) was a Town-class cruiser, launched...
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Greek town in Elis Pisa (river), Poland Pisa-class cruiser, a class of three armoured cruisers built in the early 20th century Italian cruiser Pisa, the...
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Canarias-class heavy cruiser of the Spanish Navy whose control was taken by the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War. The two ships of the class were...
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HMS Shropshire (category London-class cruisers)
HMS Shropshire was a Royal Navy (RN) heavy cruiser of the London sub-class of County-class cruisers. She is the only warship to have been named after Shropshire...
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