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Thursday, 27 March 2025

British cruiser HMS Charybdis 1939-1943

Arethusa-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Dido. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

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

Pennant 88.Part of Dido-class Dido-sub-class preceded by Arethusa-class succeeded by Fiji-class and were designed to replace the C- and D-classes cruisers. Laid down by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England on 9 November 1939, launched on 17 September 1940, completed on 3 December 1941 and torpedoed and sunk by the German torpedo boat T23in the battle of Sept-Iles on 23 October 1943. 

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