High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Achilles was a Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. She served with the 2nd Cruiser Squdron for most of the First World War. Achilles did not participate in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, but did sink the German raider Leopard in 1917. Achilles became a training ship in 1918 and was sold for scrap in 1921.