Icarus of I-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Tribal-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Tribal-class or Afridi-class (32 planned 27 completed 5 cancelled) preceded by I-class succeeded by J-class. Design based on the so-called Design V small fleet cruiser, which design was also used for the Dido-class light cruisers. Ordered on 10 March 1936, laid down by Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne on 9 June 1936, launched on 8 June 1937, completed on 10 June 1938, commissioned on 14 June 1938 and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-563 on 27 October 1941 underway from Gibraltar to England.
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