Lead ship of her class and entering service in 1935, hunted the Bismarck and fought mostly in the Mediterranean and later Normandy, survived the war and scrapped in 1949.Įntered service in 1918, a crewman won the first VC of the Mediterranean Campaign when the ship came to the aid of a hospital ship near Crete, which was under heavy attack from Stuka dive bombers in May 1941, she was sunk by German aircraft near Egypt, 1942.Įntering service in 1919, she helped rescue 4000 French refugees in 1940 and fought in the 1941 Battle of Cape Matapan, she was sunk in 1941 by German aircraft near Egypt.Įntered service in 1919, she took part in the Norwegian Campaign but was later sunk by the Italian submarine Axum near Tunisa when escorting the vital Operation Pedastal convoy to Malta in 1942. New and oddly designed battleship entering service in 1927, only British battleship class to have 16 inch guns, hunted the Bismarck and fought in the Mediterranean and in the Far East, Japanese surrender of Malaya took place aboard her, survived the war and scrapped in 1949.Įntering service in 1926, she helped sink the Bismarck and supported operations in the Mediterranean, and off Normandy, survived the war in a poor condition due to very heavy use, and scrapped in 1948.Įntered service in 1916 and fought at Jutland, famous damaged by Italian Frogmen in 1941, later fought in the Far East, survived the war and scrapped in 1948.Įntering service in 1916 and smaller, slower, but better protected than previous British battleships, served Mediterranean Fleet, survived the war and scrapped in 1948.Ĭounty-class/Kent sub-class heavy cruiserĮntering service in 1927, she intercepted two German blockade runners and invaded Iceland, with Force H, she faced off against an Italian heavy cruiser and defended Convoy WS-5A from the German ship Admiral Hipper in 1940, spent the rest of the war in home waters, survived the war and scrapped in 1948.Ĭounty-class/London sub-class heavy cruiserĮntered service in 1929 and spent some time with the Australian Navy, in 1939 she helped with the scuttling of the German liner Watussi and helped search for the Graf Spee before taking part in the Norwegian Campaign, she spent the rest of the war in the Far East and accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore in 1945, survived the war and scrapped in 1950., Lead ship of a brand new class of battleships entering service in 1940, she helped sink the Bismarck, oversaw the surrender of the Italian Navy's capital ships, and fought in the Far East, survived the war and scrapped in 1957. Lead ship of her class and entered service in 1916, hunted the Graf Spee and the Bismarck and then fought in the Mediterranean, Arctic Convoys, and in the Far East, survived the war and scrapped in 1948. Survived the war and scrapped in 1956.īritain's last battlecruiser entering service in 1920, obselete and in need of major refit by 1941, which was cancelled because of the Bismarck. Lead ship of her class entering service in 1924, her aircraft crippled the Italian fleet at Taranto.
Sunk by U-boat in 1941.Ī unique carrier entering service in 1924, converted from the Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane and heavily used early war and sunk by U-boat in 1942. A new and pioneering carrier entering service in 1938 and known as a 'lucky' ship.
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