Ships
Four ships were ordered in December 1915:
- Hawkins,
- named after John Hawkins,
- built by HM Dockyard Chatham,
- laid down 3 June 1916,
- launched 1 October 1917,
- completed 19 July 1919.
- Sold for breaking up 26 August 1947.
- Raleigh,
- named after Walter Raleigh,
- built by William Beardmore & Company, Dalmuir,
- laid down 4 October 1916,
- launched 28 August 1919,
- completed July 1921.
- Wrecked Point Amour, Forteau Bay, Labrador 8 August 1922, stripped and wreck demolished September 1926.
- Frobisher,
- named after Martin Frobisher,
- Built by HM Dockyard Devonport,
- Laid down 2 August 1916,
- Launched 20 March 1920,
- Completed 3 October 1924.
- Sold for breaking up 26 March 1949.
- Effingham,
- named after Charles Howard, Lord Effingham,
- Built by HM Dockyard Portsmouth,
- Laid down 2 April 1917,
- Launched 8 June 1921,
- Completed 9 July 1925. Rebuilt as light cruiser 1937,
- Wrecked Faksen Shoal, Bodø, Norway 18 May 1940, destroyed by gunfire & torpedoes by HMS Matabele 21 May 1940.
A fifth ship was ordered in April 1916, but was completed as an aircraft carrier:
- Cavendish,
- named after Thomas Cavendish,
- built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast,
- laid down in July 1916, redesigned as an aircraft carrier,
- launched on 17 January 1918, renamed Vindictive on 29 June 1918
- completed October 1918.
- Converted back to a cruiser 1923–1925, training ship 1937, repair ship 1940, destroyer depot ship 1944. Sold for breaking up February 1946.
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“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
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