History of  Royal Navy cruisers (heavy cruisers, light cruisers). Royal Navy cruiser website featuring the Leander Class cruiser HMS Neptune including crew and families of ex-crew members notice board for the cruiser HMS Neptune.

HMS Neptune joined the South Atlantic Fleet at the outbreak of war 1939. The following year moving to the Mediterranean  and East Indies fleet. returning to the home Fleet in 1941. HMS Neptune was mined off Tripoli 19th December 1941  and sunk

Specifications for HMS Neptune

Displacement: 7,175 tons   Speed: 32.5kt    Complement: 550

Armament: Eight 6 inch guns in pairs. Eight 4 inch anti-aircraft guns in pairs and eight 2pdr anti-aircraft guns in pairs as well as twelve 0.5 inch machine guns in fours.   Eight 21 inch torpedo tubes in pairs and 1 aircraft.

HMS Neptune, 1934.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP1321

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HMS Neptune, 1934.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP1322

Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size).  Price £5 Click here to order.  Order Code  MP1322

HMS Neptune, 1935.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP1323

Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size).  Price £5 Click here to order.  Order Code  MP1323

HMS Neptune, 1935.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP1324

Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size).  Price £5 Click here to order.  Order Code  MP1324

HMS Neptune.

A reproduction of this original photo / photo-postcard size 10" x 7" approx available.  Order photograph here  © Walker Archive. Order Code  PHC653

HMS Neptune pictured c.1935 

Original Wright & Logan Postcard 1935 approx.  Price £18.  Click here to order.    Order Code  PHC416

HMS Neptune.

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