HMAS Shropshire (1928)
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HMAS Shropshire, named for the county of Shropshire, England, was a County class heavy cruiser laid down by William Beardmore and Company, Limited, at Dalmuir, Scotland, 24 February 1926, launched 5 July 1928 by the Countess of Powis, Baroness D’Arcy de Knayth, completed 12 September 1929 and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Shropshire 24 September 1929. Following the loss of the heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra during the battle of Savo Island 9 August 1942, the British Government approved the transfer of Shropshire to Australia as a replacement and the ship commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 20 April 1943 at Chatham. Shropshire paid off to reserve on 10 November 1949, was sold as scrap to Thomas W. Ward Limited of Sheffield in England on behalf of British Iron and Steel Corporation on 16 July 1954, left Sydney in tow of the Dutch tug Oostzee in October 1954 and broken up at Troon and Dalmuir.
| County-class cruiser |
| Royal Navy |
| Berwick | Cumberland | Cornwall | Devonshire | Dorsetshire | Exeter | Kent | London | Norfolk | Shropshire | Suffolk | Sussex | York |
| Royal Australian Navy |
| Australia | Canberra | Shropshire |