A Buildings Fan's photos with the keyword: cruiser

From Wikipedia HMS Duke of Edinburgh was the lead ship of the Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. She was stationed in the Mediterranean when the First World War began and participated in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and light cruiser SMS Breslau. After the German ships reached Ottoman waters, the ship was sent to the Red Sea in mid-August to protect troop convoys arriving from India. Duke of Edinburgh was transferred to the Grand Fleet in December 1914 and participated in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. She was not damaged during the battle and was the only ship of her squadron to survive. She was eventually transferred to the Atlantic Ocean in August 1917 for convoy escort duties. The ship was sold for scrap in 1920.

HMS Ceres was a C class light cruiser built by John Browns in 1916, launched 24th March 1917 and sold and broken up in 1946

HMS Ceres was a C class light cruiser launched in 1917 and sold and broken up in 1946

Stoker Hilton, Light Weight Wrestling Champion, Grand Fleet. Stoker Hilton who was I think was of the armoured cruiser 'Good Hope'. The 'Good Hope' was lost in the battle of Coronel on the 1st of November 1914. All 926 crew lost their lives; a stoker Thomas Hilton was amongst them....... If the other men were also crew of the Good Hope, they were also drowned.

HMS Powerful was renamed Impregnable in 1919 and scrapped in 1929. presumably this postcard dates from the WWI period

HMS Ceres was a C class light cruiser launched in 1917 and sold and broken up in 1946

HMS Hermes was a high-flyer class cruiser of c1898 which was sunk in World War One; from a pile of old photos picked up in Suffolk recently . The chap in the white on the front row has 'HMS Hermes' on his cap