HMS Despatch (D30)
 HMS Despatch was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was launched from the yards of Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on 24 September 1919 and commissioned on 2 June 1922.Despatch had a relatively quiet wartime career compared to her sisters. She was operating in the South Atlantic for the early part of the war where she captured the German merchant Düsseldorf and intercepted the German merchant Troja.