High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The York class was the second and last class of 8-inch (203 mm) gunned (heavy) cruisers built for the Royal Navy under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. They were essentially a reduced version of the preceding County class, scaled down in an effort to extract more, smaller ships from the treaty limits. They can be described as "treaty cruisers", the term "heavy cruiser" not being defined until the London Naval Conference of 1930. Two ships were constructed (HMS York and Exeter), although three more were at one stage planned before the 8-inch gunned cruiser fell out of favour with the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy had a need for smaller cruisers than the County class, the largest design possible under the Washington limits, in order that more could be built under the strict defence economies of post-war, depression-era Britain. The only way to afford such savings was to reduce either armament, armour or speed.

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