H.M.S. 'Devonshire' one of the four "London" class cruisers, was laid down at Devonport in 1926, launched in 1927 and completed in 1929. Displacing 9,750 tons, she was 633 feet long, could make 32½ knots under full power and carried a main armament of eight 8in. guns. Stationed mainly in the Mediterranean until 1939, her wartime service was spent with the Home and Eastern Fleets with her most notable success being the sinling of the German armed raider 'Atlantis' in the South Atlantic in November 1941. Refitted after the War for use as a Cadets' Training Ship, she was decommissioned in 1953 and broken up in 1954