Courageous Class Battlecruiser - Ships

Ships

Ship Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate
Courageous Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick 28 March 1915 5 February 1916 28 October 1916 Sunk 17 September 1939 by U-29
Glorious Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland 1 May 1915 20 April 1916 14 October 1916 Sunk 8 June 1940 by Gneisenau and Scharnhorst
Furious Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick 8 June 1915 18 August 1916 26 June 1917 Sold for scrap 15 March 1948

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