Trumpeter 1/350 HMS Exeter 05350HMS Exeter was the second and last York class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 193536, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Stations. After WWII began in September 1939, the cruiser was assigned to patrol South Atlantic waters, along with the light cruisers Ajax &