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Ships

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT	Dimensions, m	Speed, kts	Machinery, Fuel, t	Armament	Fate
Alynbank	15.1.1925 // 4.1940	Harland & Wolff, Govan	5151	128.0(pp)x16.4x	12	2diesels,	8 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 2 - 76/45	sunk as blockship 9.6.1944
Foylebank	12.6.1930 // 3.1940	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	5582	130.1(pp)x17.5x	12	2diesels	8 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 8 - 40/39	sunk 4.7.1940
Palomares	20.10.1937 // 8.1940	Doxford, Pallion	1896	90.1(pp)x13.7x	16	1diesel	6 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 4 - 20/70	fighter direction ship 1943
Pozarica	6.9.1937 // 6.1940	Doxford, Pallion	1893	90.1(pp)x13.7x	16	1diesel	6 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 8 - 20/70	sunk 13.2.1943
Prince Robert (RCN)	3.4.1930 // 6.1943	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead	6892	117.4(pp)x17.4x6.4	21.5	2turbines, oil 1470	10 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 4 - 20/70	sold 10.1946
Springbank	13.4.1926 // 11.1939	Harland & Wolff, Govan	5155	128.1(pp)x16.4x	12	2diesels	8 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 6 - 20/70	sunk 27.9.1941
Tynwald	16.12.1936 // 4.1940	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	2376	95.9(pp)x14.1x	21	2turbines, oil 292	6 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 4 - 20/70	sunk 12.11.1942
Ulster Queen	28.3.1929 // 8.1940	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	3791	105.5(pp)x14.1x	18	2diesels, oil 170	6 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 2 - 76/45	fighter direction ship 1943

Project history

AA ships armed as AA "C" class cruisers.

Modernizations 3.

1941, Springbank: + 1 catapult and 1 fighter

1943 - 1944, all survived vessels had up to 6 - 20/70

circa 1944, Prince Robert: + 4 x 1 - 40/56, 5 - 20/70

Naval service

Springbank was sunk by German submarine U201, Tynwald by Italian submarine Argo or mine. Foylebank and Rozarica were bombed by German aircraft.