| Name: | MANCHESTER |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 28/03/1936 |
| Launched: | 12/04/1937 |
| Completed: | 04/08/1938 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 607 |
| Dimensions: | 9400disp - 11930disp, 558.0 x 64.2 x 20.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 82500shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 32.6knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 3 x 6.0ins, 4 x 2 x 4.0ins guns; 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes & 2 x seaplanes |
| History: | |
| 04/08/1938 | British Royal Navy |
| 13/08/1942 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Town Class of light cruisers |
| 23/07/1941: Hit by aerial torpedo & badly damaged, on the way to Malta | |
| Returned to Gibraltar for temporary repairs, then Philadelphia Naval Yard | |
| 13/08/1942: Torpedoed & disabled by Italian MTBs during Operation Pedestal | |
| Remaining crew rescued & she was scuttled with explosive charges off Tunisia |
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