Cruisers: Dido Class; HMNZS Royalist

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This is Deepwater in 1946

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Modified Dido Class AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured at Bluff,South Island,NZ...scrubbed that quarterdeck a few times as a Seaman Boy!
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Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist seen at Milford Sound,NZ c1957.
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Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist seen off Waiheke Island,Hauraki Gulf,NZ, in 1956.
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Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured on manoeuvres with C Class Destroyers HMS Cheviot and HMS Cavalier in 1958.
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My old ship....Modified Dido Class Light Cruiser HMNZS Royalist at HMNB Devonport c1964.
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My old ship...Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured as she plants the boot past HMAS Voyager c1963.
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My ol' home...Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured at Milford Sound.
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An original colour slide of Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured at Hong Kong c 1963...Oregon City Class Heavy Cruiser USS Rochester in the background.
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A sad day indeed....The last Dido...She should have been saved.........Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured as she departs Auckland under tow by the tug Fuji Maru for the Shipbreakers Nisho Co, Osaka, December 31st 1967.
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