Ships
- HMS Minotaur was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion in 1944 and renamed HMCS Ontario. She was decommissioned in 1959 and scrapped in 1960.
- HMS Swiftsure was launched in 1943 and served with the Royal Navy in the Far East. She was scrapped in 1962.
- HMS Superb was built to a modified design and launched in 1943. She was scrapped in 1960.
- HMS Hawke was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard on 1 July 1943, but construction was cancelled on 15 October 1945 and she was broken up on the slipway.
- HMS Tiger was renamed and laid down as Bellerophon at the Tyne yards of Vickers-Armstrong in August 1944, then renamed Blake, and then finally renamed Bellerophon again. Construction was cancelled in March 1946 and she was broken up.
- HMS Blake was renamed Tiger, and then Blake again and finally completed as a Tiger-class cruiser.
- HMS Defence was renamed Lion and completed as a Tiger-class cruiser.
- HMS Bellerophon was renamed Tiger and completed as a Tiger-class cruiser.
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