What heavy class cruiser of the Royal Navy defeated the Spanish Armada?
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HMS Effingham (D98) HMS "Effingham" was a "Hawkins"-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned at Portsmouth in 1925, having had her construction halted for several years following the end of the First World War in 1918. She was named after Lord Howard of Effingham, one of the leaders of the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1587. Completed in 1925, the vessel saw action during the Second World War and was escorting a convoy to Norway in 1940 when she ran aground. The crew was evacuated and the cruiser destroyed by a torpedo from an accompanying destroyer.
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Spanish Armada The Spanish Armada (Spanish: "Grande y Felicísima Armada" , literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from La Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. The strategic aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and her establishment of Protestantism in England, with the expectation that this would put a stop to English interference in the Spanish Netherlands and to the harm caused to Spanish interests by English and Dutch privateering.
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HMS Superb (1710) HMS "Superb was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She had previously been Le Superbe", a 56-gun warship of the French Navy, until her capture off Lizard Point by HMS "Kent" in July 1710. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in September 1710, HMS "Superb" served throughout Queen Anne's War and the War of the Quadruple Alliance, during which she participated in the destruction of the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. She was broken up in 1732.
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Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII Alfonso XII, was an "Alfonso XII"-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy.
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HMS Challenger (1902) HMS "Challenger" was a second-class protected cruiser of the "Challenger"-class of the Royal Navy.
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List of sunken battlecruisers Sunken battlecruisers are large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century that were either destroyed in battle, scuttled, or destroyed in a weapon test. They were similar in size and cost to a battleship, and typically carried the same kind of heavy guns, but battlecruisers generally carried less armor and were faster. The first battlecruisers were developed in the United Kingdom in the first decade of the century, as a development of the armored cruiser, at the same time the dreadnought succeeded the pre-dreadnought battleship. The original aim of the battlecruiser was to hunt down slower, older armored cruisers and destroy them with heavy gunfire. However, as more and more battlecruisers were built, their opponents became ships of their own type, not slower, weaker vessels.
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HMS Granado (1695) HMS "Granado" was a "Serpent"-class bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, one of ten such vessels commissioned in 1695 to support land assaults on continental ports. She saw active service in the Nine Years' War as part of the fleets commanded by Admirals Berkeley and Rooke. She was subsequently assigned to cruising duties in the Mediterranean.
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Formidable-class battleship The Royal Navy's Formidable"-class battleships were an eight-ship class of pre-dreadnoughts designed by Sir William White and built in the late 1890s. The class is often further divided into a separate London" class, and the "London" class sometimes is divided further into a separate "Queen" class. Alongside the King Edward VII class, they were the largest class of battleships built, with eight complete vessels.
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HMS Falmouth (1910) HMS "Falmouth" was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. She was one of four ships of the "Weymouth" sub-class. The ship was initially assigned to the Atlantic Fleet upon completion in 1911, but was reduced to reserve in mid-1913. When the First World War began in 1914, "Falmouth" was transferred to the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron (LCS) of the Grand Fleet and then the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron at the end of the year. The ship participated in most of the early fleet actions, including the Battles of Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank, and Jutland, but was only seriously engaged in the latter. She was torpedoed and sunk off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire by German submarines during the Action of 19 August 1916.
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HMS Antrim (1903) HMS "Antrim" was a "Devonshire"-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet upon completion in 1905 and was transferred to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1907. She was assigned to the reserve Third Fleet in 1909 and then became flagship of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the reserve Second Fleet in 1913.
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Spanish cruiser Navarra Navarra was an "Aragon"-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy in the late 19th century.
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HMS Victorious (1895) HMS "Victorious" was one of nine "Majestic"-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the British Royal Navy. She was armed with a main battery of four 12 in guns in two twin turrets, and was capable of a top speed of 16 kn . She served primarily on home waters, and participated in the Fleet Review for the Diamond Jubilee for Queen Victoria in 1897. She served briefly in the Mediterranean in 1898 before being transferred to the China Station later that year; "Victorious" remained in East Asian waters until 1900, when she returned to the Mediterranean.
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Trento-class cruiser The "Trento" class was a group of two heavy cruisers built for the Italian "Regia Marina" (Royal Navy) in the late 1920s, the first such vessels built for the Italian fleet. The two ships in the class—"Trento" and "Trieste" , were named after the redeemed cities of Trento and Trieste taken from the Austro-Hungarian empire after the victory in World War I. The ships were very lightly armored, with only a 70 mm thick armored belt, though they possessed a high speed and heavy armament of eight 203 mm guns. Nominally built under the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, the two cruisers nevertheless exceeded the displacement limits imposed by the treaty.
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HMS Formidable (1898) HMS "Formidable", the third of four ships of that name to serve in the Royal Navy, was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. Commissioned in 1904, she served initially with the Mediterranean Fleet, transferring to the Channel Fleet in 1908. In 1912, she was assigned to the 5th Battle Squadron, which was stationed at Nore.
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HMS Victorious (1808) HMS "Victorious" was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bucklers Hard on 20 October 1808, just five years after the previous HMS "Victorious" had been broken up.
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Devonshire class cruiser Two classes of cruiser of the Royal Navy are known as the "Devonshire" class:
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HMS Jamaica (44) HMS "Jamaica", a Crown Colony-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, was named after the island of Jamaica, which was a British possession when she was built in the late 1930s. The light cruiser spent almost her entire wartime career on Arctic convoy duties, except for a deployment south for the landings in North Africa in November 1942. She participated in the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942 and the Battle of North Cape in 1943. "Jamaica" escorted several aircraft carriers in 1944 as they flew off airstrikes that attacked the  in northern Norway. Late in the year she had an extensive refit to prepare her for service with the British Pacific Fleet, but the war ended before she reached the Pacific.
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HMS Liverpool (1909) HMS "Liverpool" was a 4,800 ton Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy commissioned in 1909. Named for the port city of "Liverpool", the cruiser served continuously in home waters subordinated to the Home Fleet from 1909 through the initial stages of the First World War.
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C-class cruiser The C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in a sequence of seven groups known as the "Caroline" class (six ships), the "Calliope" class (two ships), the "Cambrian" class (four ships), the "Centaur" class (two ships), the "Caledon" class (four ships), the "Ceres" class (five ships) and the "Carlisle" class (five ships). They were built for the rough conditions of the North Sea, and proved to be rugged and capable vessels, despite their being somewhat small and cramped.
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Surprise-class cruiser The "Surprise" class were two 3rd class cruisers built for the British Royal Navy, and launched in 1885.
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HMS Ceres (D59) HMS "Ceres" was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the "Ceres" group of the C-class of cruisers.
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HMS Nottingham Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Nottingham", after the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands, or alternatively after Lord High Admiral Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. The first ship was rebuilt twice, and each is sometimes considered a separate ship: