HMS Kent (1901)

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HMS Kent was a Monmouth-class armoured cruiser of 9,800 tons displacement, of the British Royal Navy. Launched on 6 March 1901, with her heaviest gun being 6 inch quick-firer. She served on the China Station between 1906 and 1913.

On the outbreak of the First World War she was re-commisioned and sent to the Falkland Islands where she participated in the Battle of the Falkland Islands and sank SMS Nurnberg. During the action her flags were damaged - new ones were presented to her on December 8th 1915 by the County Society of Kent to replace them.

From March 1915 she was again on the China Station, on March 21st 1915 sinking the German cruiser SMS Dresden off the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific.[1]

She returned to the United Kingdom in May 1915, was redesignated to the Cape Station in 1916. In June 1918 she was transferred to English channel convoy escort duty, but in July 1918 returned to the China Station. She was then sent to Vladivostok in January 1919 to support American and Japanese forces in action against the Bolshevik Red Army.

She was sold for scrap and broken up in June 1920.

See HMS Kent for other ships of this name.

Monmouth-class cruiser

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List of cruisers of the Royal Navy