| Name: | SUSSEX |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 01/02/1927 |
| Launched: | 22/02/1928 |
| Completed: | 19/03/1929 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 544 |
| Dimensions: | 9830disp - 13315disp, 595.0 x 66.0 x 17.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 80000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 32.25knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 2 x 8.0ins, 8 x 1 x 6pdr, 4 x 1 x 4.0ins, 2 x 1 x 2pdr guns; |
| 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; 1 x aircraft & catapult; (later: 3 x aircraft); | |
| (by 1945: 3 x 2 x 8.0ins; 4 x 2 x 4ins AA, 4 x 8 x 2pdr AA, 26 x 20mm AA guns) | |
| History: | |
| 19/03/1929 | British Royal Navy |
| 03/01/1950 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Admiralty's London Class of heavy cruisers |
| 18/09/1940: Bombed whilst undergoing refit at Glasgow. Extensive damage | |
| 08/1942: Returned to service | |
| 03/01/1950: Handed over to BISCO - British Iron & Steel Corporation | |
| 23/02/1950: Allocated to WH Arnott, Young & Co Ltd at Dalmuir |
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