They were intended to be fitted to the large
light cruiser HMS Furious, but gun trials showed she could not handle these heavy weapons and they were then used on monitors in fixed mountings.
The vessel went down in his-tory when it torpedoed and sank the 3,000-tonneBritish
light cruiser HMS Pathfinder on September 5,1914.
Beginning on the
light cruiser HMS Phoebe, he was hit by a armoured hatch while re-ammunitioning the ship and spent six weeks in hospital.
ROYAL Navy rating Albert Acton approached the Normandy coastline on the
light cruiser Diadem.
In 1915, the
light cruiser Comus was the first large warship to be built by Swan's.
The last was a 4,650 tonne
light cruiser, built by Palmers Shipbuilding Company in Jarrow, South Tyneside, and launched in 1918.
Wright (four heavy and one
light cruiser, six destroyers) off Tassafaronga Point, and although Takanami was sunk by American gunfire, Tanaka's well-timed torpedo salvoes sank U.S.S.