High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Donegal was a Monmouth-class armoured cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding Engineering Co Ltd of Govan and launched on 4 September 1902. She served in the First World War with most of her sisters, and survived to be sold for scrap on 1 July 1920. She was initially sold to S. Castle, of Plymouth, but later resold to Granton S. Breaking Co.