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Friday, 14 February 2025

British light cruiser HMS Dido 1937-1957

Arethusa-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Dido. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Crown Colony- or Fiji-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Pennant 37. Part of Dido-class Dido-sub-class preceded by Arethusa-class succeeded by Fiji-class and were designed to replaced the C- and D-classes cruisers. Laid down by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England on 26 October 1937, launched on 18 July 1939, commissioned on 30 September 1940, decommissioned in October 1947 and sold to be broken up on 18 July 1957. 

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