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==Ships== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |+ County-class ships of the Royal Navy |- ! scope="col" | Ship ! scope="col" | Pennant ! scope="col" | Subclass ! scope="col" | Builder ! scope="col" style="width: 5em;"| Laid down ! scope="col" style="width: 5em;"| Launched ! scope="col" style="width: 5em;"| Completed ! scope="col" | Fate |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Berwick|65|2}} |65 | rowspan=5 | ''Kent'' |[[Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company|Fairfield Shipbuilding &<br /> Engineering Company]], [[Govan]] |15 Sep 1924 |30 Mar 1926 |15 Feb 1928 | Broken up at [[Blyth, Northumberland|Blyth]], 1948 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Cumberland|57|2}} |57 |[[Vickers-Armstrongs]], [[Barrow in Furness]] |18 Oct 1924 |16 Mar 1926 |21 Jan 1928 | Broken up at [[Newport, Wales|Newport]], 1959 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Suffolk|55|2}} |55 |[[HMNB Portsmouth|HM Dockyard Portsmouth]] |30 Sep 1924 |16 Feb 1926 |31 May 1928 | Broken up at Newport, 1948 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Kent|68|2}} |54 |[[Chatham Dockyard|HM Dockyard Chatham]] |15 Nov 1924 |16 Mar 1926 |22 Jun 1928 | Broken up at [[Troon]], 1948 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Cornwall|56|2}} |56 |[[HM Dockyard Devonport]] |9 Oct 1924 |11 Mar 1926 |10 May 1928 | Sunk by Japanese aircraft in "[[Indian Ocean raid|Easter Sunday Raid]]" south of Ceylon, 5 Apr 1942 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|London|69|2}} |69 | rowspan=4 | ''London'' |HM Dockyard, Portsmouth |23 Feb 1926 |14 Sep 1927 |31 Jan 1929 | Broken up at Barrow-in-Furness, 1950 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Devonshire|39|2}} |39 |HM Dockyard, Devonport |16 Mar 1926 |22 Oct 1927 |18 Mar 1929 | Broken up at Newport, 1954 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Sussex|96|2}} |96 |[[Hawthorn Leslie & Company]], [[Hebburn]] |1 Feb 1927 |22 Feb 1928 |19 Mar 1929 | Broken up at [[Dalmuir]], 1950 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Shropshire|83|2}} |73 |[[William Beardmore & Company]], [[Dalmuir]] |24 Feb 1927 |5 Jul 1928 |12 Sep 1929 | To RAN 1943<br />Broken up at Troon, 1954 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Norfolk|78|2}} |78 | rowspan=5 | ''Norfolk'' |Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan |8 Jul 1927 |12 Dec 1928 |1 May 1930 | Broken up at Newport, 1950 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Dorsetshire|40|2}} |40 |HM Dockyard, Portsmouth |21 Sep 1927 |24 Jan 1929 |30 Sep 1930 | Sunk by Japanese aircraft in "[[Indian Ocean raid|Easter Sunday Raid]]" south of Ceylon, 5 Apr 1942 |- ! scope="row" | ''Surrey'' | rowspan=3 | n/a | HM Dockyard, Devonport | colspan="4" rowspan="3" | Cancelled 14 Jan 1930 |- ! scope="row" | ''Northumberland'' | HM Dockyard, Portsmouth |- ! scope="row" | Not named | {{sdash}} |- class="sortbottom" style="display:none;" <!-- need invisible "row" to display previous row that only has row header, and rowspans from above --> | colspan=8 | |} {|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ ''Kent''-class ships of the [[Royal Australian Navy]] |- ! scope="col" | Ship ! scope="col" | Pennant ! scope="col" | Builder ! scope="col" style="width: 6em;"| Laid down ! scope="col" style="width: 6em;"| Launched ! scope="col" style="width: 6em;"| Completed ! scope="col" | Fate |- ! scope="row" | {{HMAS|Australia|D84|2}} |I84 |rowspan=2|[[John Brown & Company]], [[Clydebank]] |9 Jun 1925 |17 Mar 1927 |24 Apr 1928 | Broken up at [[Barrow-in-Furness]], 1955 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMAS|Canberra|D33|2}} |I85 |9 Sep 1925 |31 May 1927 |10 Jul 1928 | Crippled by torpedos, possibly friendly fire, at [[Battle of Savo Island]] 9 Aug 1942; subsequently abandoned and scuttled |}
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