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Shropshire

Class	London class
Type	Heavy cruiser (CA)
Hull	73
Fate	Afloat. Transferred to the RAN after Canberra was lost. Survived the war. She was in the cruiser line at Surigao Strait.
Armament (class)	London-subclass County cruiser. Four twin 8-inch turrets.
Command	Harries, David H. Captain from 28 December 1942 Collins, John Augustine Captain from 7 April 1943 Showers, Henry Arthur In command, September 1944 Nichols, Charles Alfred Godfrey In command, 21 October 1944

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

HMAS Shropshire, numbered 73, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the London subclass in the Royal Australian Navy. She passed to the RAN after the cruiser Canberra was lost, and she took Canberra’s place.

David H. Harries became her captain on 28 December 1942. John Augustine Collins took command on 7 April 1943.

Henry Arthur Showers was in command in September 1944. Charles Alfred Godfrey Nichols assumed command on 21 October 1944.

On 25 October 1944 Shropshire was in the Battle of Surigao Strait. She stood on the right flank of the cruiser line. She survived the war. At the end of August 1945 she was in Tokyo Bay with the Australian ships.

The pictures on this page are the originals.