HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Chatham Dockyard, with the keel being laid down...

borne the name HMS Arethusa after the Greek mythological nymph Arethusa who was transformed by Artemis into a fountain. HMS Arethusa (1759) was a 32-gun...

Polyphemus and Minotaur, were ordered in 1934 as the 9,100-ton Town-class Southampton and Newcastle. The Arethusas were a smaller version of the Amphion...

1874, Arethusa became a school and training ship on the River Thames, preparing young boys for maritime careers, until she was broken up in 1934. HMS Arethusa...

HMS Galatea was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland), with the...

protected cruiser. HMS Phaeton (1914), launched 1914, was an Arethusa-class light cruiser. She served in World War I. HMS Phaeton, launched 1934, was a Leander-class...

French submarine, in service 1958-1981 HMS Arethusa, nine ships of the Royal Navy, 1759 to 1991 The Saucy Arethusa, a ballad about the action of 17 June...

1905. HMS Galatea (1914) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched on 14 May 1914 at William Beardmore and Company shipyard and sold 1921. HMS Galatea (71)...

HMS Penelope was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast, Northern Ireland); her keel was laid down...

HMS Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard, with the keel being laid down on 27 July 1935....

armored cruiser had arrived. The first true modern light cruisers were the Arethusa class which had all oil-firing and used lightweight destroyer-type machinery...

Yat Sen (1934) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Atada. Returned to the Republic of China 1946, decommissioned 1958 British Arethusa class Chung...

class but was renamed the Town class in November 1934. Uniquely, the final Southampton class cruiser, HMS Birmingham, was built with a fully flared bow and...

HMS Glowworm was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War the ship spent part of 1936 and 1937 in Spanish...

Navy as HMS Dragon. Armed with six 6-inch guns, the light cruiser was commissioned late during World War I and a Daily Mirror article of 1934 credits...

and the king knighted him. Pellew transferred to HMS Arethusa in December 1793. In 1794, Arethusa was part of the western squadron of frigates based...

This turret was later worked into the design of the Leander, Amphion and Arethusa classes. The turret installation occupied less space than the superimposed...

1921. HMS Galatea (71) was a light cruiser of (another) Arethusa class, launched in 1934, and torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1941. HMS Galatea (1946)...

his broad pendant in the protected cruiser HMS Amethyst. With his flag in the light cruiser HMS Arethusa, Tyrwhitt led a supporting naval force of 31...

HMS Grafton (H89) was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable...

HMS Greyhound was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. Greyhound participated in the Norwegian Campaign in April 1940, the Dunkirk...

offered an appointment as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Lionel Wells in HMS Arethusa, flagship of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron, then part of the Mediterranean...

of the Second World War and became President of Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa, a training school for homeless boys in London, in 1942. He attended the...

of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...

lengthen as fatigue set in, but was creditable..." Leander-class cruiser Arethusa-class cruiser Town-class cruiser Fiji-class cruiser Minotaur-class cruiser...

Lieutenant Mortemart. On 18 March, she was fought HMS Arethusa, under captain Charles Holmes Everitt. Arethusa sustained damage and was wrecked the next day...

HMS Hunter was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship enforced the arms blockade...

the mainland of Normandy during the beach landings. Chile wanted to buy HMS Ajax in 1948-9, but the opposition leader in the UK, Winston Churchill thought...

36-gun HMS Flora, the 38-gun HMS Arethusa under Captain Sir Edward Pellew, and the 36-gun frigates HMS Melampus, under Captain Thomas Wells, and HMS Nymphe...

instructor there, but was then appointed gunnery officer on the light cruiser HMS Arethusa in Alexandria, where he was involved in the struggle to get supplies...