RN Cruisers: Dido Class

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ARGONAUT...intact!! ;) DFO
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Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMS Phoebe pictured at Shipbreakers Messrs, Hughes, Bolckow, and Co.,Limited Yards at Blyth in 1956.
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Lead Ship,Light AA Cruiser HMS Dido.
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Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMS Euryalus pictured c1950.She was the last Cruiser built at Chatham Dockyard in 1939.She was the most modernised of the original Didos, having been extensively updated from October 1943 to June 1944 at John Brown on the Clyde with new light anti-aircraft armament of 20 mm, 40 mm and 2-pounder mountings and a generally new radar suite with Type 293 radar the standard post war Royal Navy target indicator and close range air and surface search, Type 272 height finders and surface warning and new navigation radar. After the end of World War II Euryalus spent 18 further months in the Pacific Fleet operating from Sydney, Japan and Hong Kong before returning to the UK for a year-long modernisation at Rosyth in 1947–48. By this time the long range airwarning radar on Euryalus was the late war Type 279b/281, the precursor of the post-1945, Type 960. Photos reveal that Euryalus's 5.25-inch turrets were also modified externally in the same way as Vanguard's and Royalist's with the insertion in the turret for operators of a large Perspex sighting windows. In the early 1950s a major modernisation was planned for Dido-Class Cruisers Phoebe, Diadem and Cleopatra,refitting them in a similar pattern to HMS Royalist with the further improvement of new boilers, similar to those of the Daring Class Destroyers. The $4.5 million cost of Royalist's update to a 1950s Carrier Fleet Picket standard ruled this out.Euryalus was scrapped in 1959.
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Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMS Hermione pictured on convoy escort duty as carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle transport vitally needed aircraft to Malta.....in the distance is Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship HMS Malaya,March 7th 1942.
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Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMS Hermione pictured conducting a stern RAS with Dale Class Fleet Tanker RFA Dingledale on January 3rd 1942...On June 16th 1942, Hermione was torpedoed and sunk by U Boat U-205 in the Mediterranean.,Eighty-seven crewmembers perished.
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Bellona Sub Class,Improved Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMS Royalist pictured off Greenock in 1943.
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Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMS Hermoine pictured on Convoy Escort duty in the Mediterranean Sea in September 1941.....She was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by Type VIIC U-Boat U-205 on June 16th 1942 with the loss of 87 crewmen.
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Bellona Sub Class,Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMS Diadem pictured c1948.
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Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMS Hermione pictured as she enters Valletta, Malta in September 1941. Sadly On June 16th 1942, Hermione was torpedoed and sunk by German type VII C Submarine U-205 in the Mediterranean. Eighty-seven crew members perished.
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