| Name: | SHEFFIELD |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 31/01/1935 |
| Launched: | 23/07/1936 |
| Completed: | 25/08/1937 |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 5 |
| Dimensions: | 9100disp - 11350disp, 558.0 x 62.25 x 17.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR Geared, 75000shp |
| Engines by: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, Barrow |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 32.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 3 x 6.0ins, 4 x 2 x 4.0ins, 2 x 4 x 2pdr guns; |
| 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes & 2 x seaplanes | |
| History: | |
| 25/08/1937 | British Royal Navy |
| 22/09/1967 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Town Class of Light Cruisers |
| Known as "Shiny Sheff" because of the use of stainless steel rather than brass fittings | |
| 31/08/1967: Sold to Shipbreaking Industries | |
| 22/09/1967: Arrived at Faslane for breaking up |
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