What heavy class cruiser of the Royal Navy defeated the Spanish Armada?
HMS Effingham (D98) HMS "Effingham" was a "Hawkins"-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned at Portsmouth in 1925, having had her construction halted for several years following the end of the First World War in 1918. She was named after Lord Howard of Effingham, one of the leaders of the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1587. Completed in 1925, the vessel saw action during the Second World War and was escorting a convoy to Norway in 1940 when she ran aground. The crew was evacuated and the cruiser destroyed by a torpedo from an accompanying destroyer.
HMS Superb (1710) HMS "Superb was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She had previously been Le Superbe", a 56-gun warship of the French Navy, until her capture off Lizard Point by HMS "Kent" in July 1710. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in September 1710, HMS "Superb" served throughout Queen Anne's War and the War of the Quadruple Alliance, during which she participated in the destruction of the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. She was broken up in 1732.