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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 Treaty of 1930. The ships were built in the sub-classes, Southampton , Gloucester and Edinburgh , each sub-class adding more weaponry.
Pages in category "Town-class cruisers (1936)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
HMS Sheffield 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 1937. . She was active in all major naval European theatres of the Second World War, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Arctic Oc
HMS 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 the Edinburgh sub-class. Edinburgh saw a great deal of combat service during the Second World War, especially in the North Sea and the Arctic Sea, where she was sunk by torpedoes ...
HMS Southampton was a member of the first group of five ships of the Town class of light cruisers. She was built by John Brown & Company , Clydebank , Scotland and launched on 10 March 1936. Service history
Belfast is a cruiser of the third Town class. The Town class had originated in 1933 as the Admiralty's response to the Imperial Japanese Navy's Mogami-class cruiser, an 11,200-ton cruiser mounting fifteen 6-inch (152 mm) guns with a top speed exceeding 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph).
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 in 1940. She had the unfortunate experience of sinking two Allied ships during her wartime service, once through accidental collision and the other by gunfire after a case of mistaken identity.
The Town-class light cruisers were designed as counters to the Japanese Mogami-class cruisers built during the early 1930s and the second batch of three ships was enlarged, with the most powerful engines and widest beam of any post 1927 Royal Navy cruisers, to maintain speed and stability with the weight of, a second low angle main director (2) T284 LADCT, to give two channel fire control of ...