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Six Minotaur-class cruisers were planned over a ten-year period by the Royal Navy, with the same names as planned for the Neptune-class cruiser design: Minotaur, Neptune, Centurion, Edgar, Mars, and Bellerophon. The plan involved laying down two cruisers in 1951, 1952, and 1953 with completion in 1954, 1955, and 1956 respectively.
Minotaur-class cruiser may refer to: Minotaur-class cruiser (1906), a class of Royal Navy armoured cruisers launched in 1906–1907; Minotaur-class cruiser (1943), a class of Royal Navy light cruisers launched in 1943–1945; Minotaur-class cruiser (1947), a projected class of Royal Navy cruisers, a design both finalised and cancelled in 1947
The class was originally to have consisted of twelve ships, [1] six were laid down in 1941–1942 and the seventh unit, Hawke, in 1943.Four of the ordered cruisers were cancelled almost immediately, three in March 1942 being replaced by the first light fleet carrier order [a] and another, probably Mars, was cancelled in November 1942.
HMCS Ontario was a Minotaur-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy as HMS Minotaur (53), but transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion and renamed Ontario. [ 2 ] HMS Minotaur was laid down on 20 November 1941 by Harland & Wolff of Belfast and launched on 29 July 1943. [ 2 ]
Mersey-class cruiser; Minotaur-class cruiser (1906) Minotaur-class cruiser (1943) Minotaur-class cruiser (1947) Mogami-class cruiser; Monmouth-class cruiser; Montgomery-class cruiser; Myōkō-class cruiser
The Neptune class was a proposed class of cruisers planned for the British Royal Navy in the latter years of the Second World War. They were large ships which were to be armed with twelve 6-inch (152 mm) dual-purpose guns and with a heavy secondary armament. Although five ships of the class were planned in 1944, they were cancelled following ...
HMS Minotaur (1906) was the lead ship of the Minotaur class of armoured cruisers, launched in 1906 and broken up in 1920. HMS Minotaur was to have been a Arethusa class cruiser. However, this ship was cancelled and reordered as a new Town-class named as HMS Newcastle. HMS Minotaur was the lead ship of the Minotaur class of light cruisers ...
HMS Superb was a Minotaur-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship entered service in 1945 and had a brief, quiet career before being decommissioned in 1957 after her modernisation was cancelled. She was broken up in 1960.