HMS Antrim
Two ships of the
Royal Navy
have been named
HMS
Antrim
, after
County Antrim
in
Northern Ireland
:
HMS
Antrim
(1903)
was a
Devonshire
-class
armoured cruiser
launched in 1903. She served in
World War I
and was broken up in 1923.
HMS
Antrim
(D18)
was a
County-class
destroyer
launched in 1967.
Antrim
served in the
Falklands War
and helped re-take
South Georgia
. She was sold to the
Chilean Navy
in 1984 and renamed
Almirante Cochrane
after
Thomas Cochrane
.
References
Colledge, J. J.
; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
(3rd Rev
ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-86176-281-8
.
OCLC
67375475
.
List of ships with the same or similar names
This article includes a
list of ships
with the same or similar names. If an
internal link
for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.