Gloucester Class Cruiser (1937)

Three Gloucester class light cruisers were completed in Britain in 1938 and 1939. They are sometimes considered a mild variant on the preceding Southampton class ships. Two of the three were lost in World War II.

Overview of 3 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Gloucester	Devonport Royal Dockyard	22 Sep, 1936	19 Oct, 1937		Sunk 22 May, 1941
Liverpool	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company	17 Feb, 1936	24 Mar, 1937		Broken up 1958
Manchester	Hawthorn Leslie & Company	28 Mar, 1936	12 Apr, 1937		Sunk 13 Aug, 1942

See Also

• Wikipedia
• Chesneau, Roger (editor) (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).