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    HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of eight light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She saw a considerable amount of action during...
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  • 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...
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    The Arethusa-class cruisers were a class of eight oil-fired light cruisers of the Royal Navy all ordered in September 1912, primarily for service in the...
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  • up in 1881. HMS Aurora (1887) was an Orlando-class armoured cruiser launched in 1887 and sold in 1907. HMS Aurora (1913) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser...
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  • 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...
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    HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. The ship was the most heavily armoured British battlecruiser at the start of...
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    HMS Galatea was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She fought in the First World War, participating in...
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  • renamed Colleen in 1913 and transferred to the Irish Free State in 1923. She was scrapped in 1950. HMS Royalist (1915) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser...
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    in July–August 1913 as part of the 1913–14 Naval Programme, the Carolines were enlarged and improved versions of the preceding Arethusa-class cruisers...
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    HMS Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser that saw service in World War I with the Royal Navy. During the war, the cruiser participated in the Battle...
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    large liferaft floated clear. The C-class light cruiser HMS Comus and M-class destroyer HMS Munster then arrived. Comus proceeded to rendezvous with...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Penelope (1914)
    HMS Penelope was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She fought in the First World War, following the war...
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    Peking (ship) (redirect from HMS Pekin)
    25 July 1933. During World War II she served in the Royal Navy as HMS Pekin. Arethusa II was retired in 1974 and sold to Jack Aron as Peking, for the South...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Phaeton (1914)
    HMS Phaeton was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She fought in the First World War, participating in...
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    HMS Inconstant was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She fought in the First World War, participating in...
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    depart at dawn on 27 August. Tyrwhitt, aboard the brand new light cruiser HMS Arethusa, would command the 3rd Flotilla of 16 modern L-class destroyers, whilst...
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    HMS Queen Mary was the last battlecruiser built by the Royal Navy before the First World War. The sole member of her class, Queen Mary shared many features...
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    HMS Undaunted was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. The Arethusa-class cruisers were intended to lead destroyer...
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    designs throughout the war. The C class ships were started in 1913, and of these, HMS Caroline remains - the only extant survivor of the Battle of Jutland...
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    ships : Birmingham-class light cruisers laid down 1912, commissioned 1914 Arethusa-class light cruisers laid down 1912, commissioned 1914 C-class light cruisers...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Royalist (1915)
    HMS Royalist was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She fought in the First World War, participating in...
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    HMS Invincible was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the twentieth century and the...
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    Nelson-class battleship GRC Katsonis HMS Chester Arethusa class (1913) C class (1912–17) Caroline class Calliope class HMS Champion Cambrian class Centaur...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Laforey (1913)
    destroyer (V187) was sunk at the cost of damage to the British cruiser HMS Arethusa and three destroyers (Laurel, Liberty and Laertes). Laforey was undamaged...
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  • the Republic of China 1946, decommissioned 1958 British Arethusa class Chung King (1948) - ex-HMS Aurora of the Royal Navy, sold on 19 May 1948 to the Nationalist...
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    HMS New Zealand was one of three Indefatigable-class battlecruisers. Launched in 1911, the ship was funded by the government of New Zealand as a gift...
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    destroyer (V187) was sunk at the cost of damage to the British cruiser HMS Arethusa and three destroyers. On 2 November Lawford accompanied the light cruiser...
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    by the Admiralty in 1880. The class comprised HMS Leander, HMS Phaeton, HMS Amphion, and HMS Arethusa. "A new and better policy of unarmoured construction...
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  • guns of varying numbers. HMS Argonaut HMS Ajax HMS Arethusa HMS Belfast (Flagship of Rear Admiral Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton) HMS Bellona - also carried...
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    December 1932. From May 1935 he served as commanding officer of the cruiser Arethusa as part of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean, then from July...
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