HMS Exeter was the second and last York -class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–1936, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Station.

HMS Exeter (D89) was a Type 42 destroyer, launched in 1979. She served in the Falklands War and the Gulf War, and was in service until she was decommissioned on 27 May 2009.

YORK-Class cruiser ordered from HM Dockyard, Devonport on 15th March 1928 and laid down on 1st August that year. She was launched 13th July 1929 as the fifth RN ship to bear this name, introduced in 1680 for a 3rd Rate 70 gun ship. The last ship with the name was a Trawler hire for use as a minesweeper during WW1.

Built at Devonport dockyard, Plymouth, the fourth HMS Exeter was a York-class heavy cruiser. She was launched in 1929 and commissioned in 1931. Designed following the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 she was fitted with only six 8” guns as her main armament as opposed to …

The full story of H.M.S. Exeter's gallant end, fighting against impossible odds off the coast of Java, reached the Admiralty in December 1945. The cruiser, famous for her part in the glorious battle against the Admiral Graf Spee off the River Plate, was sunk on March 1, 1942.

May 13, 2015 · HMS Exeter (68) was a York-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy that served in World War II. She was laid down on 1 August 1928 at the Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, Devon. She was launched on 18 July 1929 and completed on 27 July 1931.

Oct 15, 2017 · After the Japanese surprise attack on the American naval port at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7th, 1941, HMS Exeter was redeployed in the Far East to protect British and Allied interests from possible take-over by Japanese forces.

The Royal Marines HMS Exeter Historical background Since the war started, a German battleship, the Graf Spee, had been roaming the South Atlantic sinking unarmed British merchant ships.

HMS Exeter was a heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. When World War II began in September 1939, the cruiser was assigned to patrol South American waters.

On 27 Feb 1942, during the first Battle of the Java Sea, Exeter suffered major damage when a shell from the Japanese heavy cruiser Hagura exploded in the forward boiler room. Disabled the Exeter sheered out of line and slowed.