Town Class Light Cruisers

Name	Pennant	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned
First Group (Southampton Class)
Newcastle	C76	Vickers Armstrong (Tyne)	October 4th 1934	January 23rd 1936	March 5th 1937
Southampton		John Brown (Clydebank)	November 21st 1934	March 10th 1936	March 6th 1937
Sheffield	C24	Vickers Armstrong (Tyne)	January 31st 1935	July 23rd 1936	August 25th 1937
Glasgow	C21	Scotts (Greenock)	April 16th 1935	June 20th 1936	September 9th 1937
Birmingham	C19	Devonport Dockyard	July 18th 1935	September 1st 1936	November 18th 1937
Second Group (Gloucester Class)
Liverpool	C11	Fairfield (Govan)	February 17th 1936	March 24th 1937	November 2nd 1938
Manchester		Hawthorne Leslie (Hebburn)	March 28th 1936	April 12th 1937	August 4th 1938
Gloucester		Devonport Dockyard	September 22nd 1936	October 19th 1937	January 31st 1939
Third Group (Edinburgh Class)
Belfast	C35	Harland & Wolff (Belfast)	December 10th 1936	March 17th 1938	August 3rd 1939
Edinburgh		Swan Hunter (Wallsend)	December 30th 1936	March 31st 1938	July 6th 1939

Above: The last surviving Second World War Royal Navy Cruiser, HMS Belfast, enters Portsmouth Dockyard in the Summer of 1999 for dry-docking, during which her hull was inspected and repainted. Belfast has been on public display in the Pool of London since the late 1970s. (© Crown Copyright)

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