HMS Neptune (20) was a Leander-class light cruiser launched in 1933 and sunk in a minefield off Tripoli in 1941. HMS Neptune was a projected Neptune -class cruiser in the 1945 Naval Estimates, but the plans were cancelled in March 1946 and she was never ordered.

HMS Neptune was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. Neptune was the fourth ship of its class and was the ninth Royal Navy vessel to carry the name.

HMS Neptune was a dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century, the sole ship of her class. She was the first British battleship to be built with superfiring guns.

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The sinking of HMS Neptune remains the New Zealand’s worst naval tragedy. A Royal Navy cruiser, HMS Neptune struck four enemy mines and sank off Libya early on the morning of 19 December, 1941. Seven hundred and sixty four men lost …

2016年5月10日 · The HMS Neptune was ordered in 1908, laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard in 19 January 1909 and launched on 30 September 1909, and eventually commissioned on 11 January 1911 under Captain Vivian Bernard command throughout her carrer.

Founded in December 2002 and wound up in September 2024, the Association was dedicated to the memory of those 764 seamen from the Royal Naval Cruiser H.M.S. Neptune and 73 more from the K Class Destroyer H.M.S. Kandahar, who died when the ships were sunk by mines in Libyan waters on the night of 18th/19th December 1941.

More than 70 years ago on the night of 19 December 1941, there occurred one of the most extensive but least known naval disasters of the Second World War. The Cruiser HMS Neptune ran into an uncharted minefield in the Mediterranean off Tripoli, and sank with the loss of 764 officers and men.

2022年6月9日 · H.M.S. Neptune was a battleship of the Royal Navy, and the only member of her class. She was laid down at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in 1909, launched the same year, and completed at the beginning of 1911.

LEANDER-Class cruiser ordered under the 1930 programme from HM Dockyard Devonport on 2nd March 1931 and laid down on 24th September that year. She was launched on 31st March 1932 as the 14th RN ship to carry the name, introduced in 1683 for a 2nd Rate and last used for a 1909 battleship which was sold in 1922.