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FROBISHER

HMS Frobisher was a British Cavendish Class light cruiser of 9860 tons displacement launched in 1920. She had a top speed of 30 knots and carried a crew of 712. Armaments consisted of five 7.5 inch calibre BL MkV main guns; five 4 inch calibre QF HA MkV secondary guns; eight Vickers 2-pounder Mark VIII anti-aircraft guns; ten Oerlikon 20 mm/65 guns; six 21 inch torpedoes. Disarmed and used as a cadet training ship in December 1936, she was converted back to a cruiser in September 1939 as a Hawkins Class vessel and re-entered active service in February 1942, before being converted back to a training ship in October 1944 and sold for scrap in May 1949.
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