HMS Suffolk (1903)

HMS Suffolk was a Monmouth class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy built in 1903 and sold out of the Royal Navy in 1920. She had a displacement of 9,800 tons, a speed of 23 knots, and a crew complement of about 680. Her primary armament consisted of 14 quick-firing 6-inch guns, arranged in a mixture of turrets and casemates. This was complemented by smaller guns and two submerged torpedo tubes.

In 1904-05 her commander was Captain [later Admiral of the Fleet] David Beatty**. She served in the First World War, where she was temporarily the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock's North America and West Indies command. He later transferred to the faster HMS Good Hope, where he was killed when she was sunk at the Battle of Coronel. Suffolk was sold on July 1, 1920, and broken up in 1922 in Germany.