Lewin of Greenwich Naval History & Forum

Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist....showing the 'Whitby's what speed is.

Yes....... she's certainly going well Brian , nice shot to , thanks for posting it

A couple of pics of her from her WW2 RN days...... DFO

Thanks Brian , she still looks a prim boat , thanks for the update .

Modified Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured entering San Francisco in 1962...I was aboard at the time..(I think I was in the Ops Room).*Note her saluting gun crews at the ready on B Gundeck...a few windows in the International Terminal were shattered!

I was aboard her at the time..
Modified Dido Class AA Light Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured under tow from Carlock.
When returning from the Far East station after what was to have been her last tour,Royalist had to stop engines on November 1st 1965 after the discovery of serious salt-water contamination of condenser feed-water, and badly damaged boilers and evaporators ('condenseritis').
She was steaming past the Solomon Islands, off Bellona Island, about 80 miles south of Guadalcanal at the time, and drifted overnight until towed out of harms way from a reef,110 miles by the Survey Ship HMS Dampier into open water. Royalist drifted for several days until the Brisbane tug Carlock took her in tow on November 7th.Survey Ship HMNZS Lachlan arrived from Auckland on November 9th with much-needed fuel, mail, spares and stores, and escorted Royalist the rest of the way to Auckland. Sufficient steam from one boiler was raised on November 11th and Carlock dropped the tow the next morning.
Royalist arrived at Auckland under reduced power on November 17th 1965 and berthed. She was destored and paid off five months prematurely. She was used as an alongside Training Ship at Auckland until decommissioned
on 4th July 1966.

Ceylon Sub group,Crown Colony Class Light Cruiser HMS Ceylon seen with Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist at Trincomalee in 1959.

Here is the ROYALIST alongside RAMILLES during May, 1947. The question is: who is on her other beam? Could it be a Dutch light cruiser (funnel sure doesn't look like any RN one), or??????...... DFO

Modified Dido Class AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist pictured as she enters San Francisco in 1962...I was aboard her at the time.

designeraccd wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:49 pm Here is the ROYALIST alongside RAMILLES during May, 1947. The question is: who is on her other beam? Could it be a Dutch light cruiser (funnel sure doesn't look like any RN one), or??????...... DFO

HMS Deepwater Ex Kreigsmarine Diving Tender and Torpedo Trials Ship Walter Helsaphel..Regards Brian