Hawkins-class cruiser
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The Hawkins class consisted of five heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War, although none of them saw service during the war. The first ship to be completed, HMS Vindictive
Raleigh in Vancouver, Canada, December 1921
Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1923
Hawkins in a dry dock, 1920–1935
Vindictive shortly after completion
Town-class cruiser (1910)
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The Town class was a group of twenty-one light cruisers built for the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy of the first half of the 20th century. These vessels were long-range cruisers, suitable for p
Hawkins-class cruiser
…Naval Treaty of 1922. Although the Hawkins class are sometimes named as the "Improved Birminghams", referring to the Birmingham sub-class of the Town-class light cruisers, their design was based on a proposal by the Director of Naval Construction, Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, in 1912–1913. Reacting to rumours of large…
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HMS Glasgow at Valparaíso, Chile, before the Battle of Coronel, 1 November 1914