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==Service== {{Expand section|date=February 2010}} The County class saw much service during the Second World War. ''Norfolk'' and ''Suffolk'' were equipped with [[radar]] which was used to good advantage when they shadowed the {{ship|German battleship|Bismarck||6}} during the RN's [[last battle of the battleship Bismarck|attempts to hunt her down]] after the sinking of {{HMS|Hood|51|6}}. The class saw service in nearly every theatre of the war. ''Norfolk'', ''Suffolk'', and ''Dorsetshire'' were involved in the pursuit of ''Bismarck'' and {{ship|German cruiser|Prinz Eugen||2}}. ''Berwick'' fought a gunnery action with the {{ship|German cruiser|Admiral Hipper||6}}, and ''Norfolk'' again fought German Navy surface units during [[Battle of the North Cape]]. ''Suffolk'' and ''Sussex'' suffered bomb damage from [[Luftwaffe]] aircraft, and both required substantial repairs. Three of the class were lost, with ''Canberra'' being hit by torpedoes,<ref>Eime, Roderick (2015). "Lifting the Shame of Savo Island". Combat narrative dealing with the probable friendly fire incident with HMAS Canberra. Retrieved 19 October 2019.</ref> possibly friendly fire, at the [[Battle of Savo Island]] then scuttled by a U.S. destroyer, and ''Cornwall'' and ''Dorsetshire'' both bombed and sunk by Japanese carrier-borne aircraft during the [[Indian Ocean raid]]. The survivors began decommissioning in 1948, and were all decommissioned by the mid-1950s, except ''Cumberland'', which was an armaments trials ship testing the automatic 6-inch and 3-inch guns that would be fitted to the {{sclass|Tiger|cruiser|4}}. She was scrapped in 1959.
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