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HMS Capetown (D 88)

Light cruiser of the Cairo class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeLight cruiser
ClassCairo 
PennantD 88 
Built byCammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down23 Feb, 1918 
Launched28 Jun, 1919 
Commissioned10 Apr, 1922 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMS Capetown was completed by Pembroke Dockyard.

Sold on 5 April 1946.
Scrapped by T.W. Ward arriving at Preston on 2 June 1946.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Terence Hugh Back, RN
31 July 1939 - 4 November 1940

Capt. Percival H.G. James, RN
4 November 1940 - ???

A/Cdr. H.H. Robson, RN (retired)
??? – 24 September 1941

Capt. Percival H.G. James, RN
24 September 1941 – November 1942

Capt. Charles Livingston Robertson, RN
November 1942 – ca. September 1943

HMS Capetown was in Care and Maintenance

A/Capt. Henry Freston Nash, RN (retired)
17 April 1944 – still in command in January 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Capetown is not listed as active unit in the January 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Capetown include:

6 Apr, 1941
HMS Capetown (Capt. P.H.G. James, RN) was torpedoed and damaged off Massawa, Eritrea by the Italian motor torpedo boat MAS 213 and brought into Port Sudan under tow by the Australian sloop HMAS Parramatta (Lt.Cdr. J.H. Walker, MVO, RAN) only with difficulty. She spent about a year under repair at Bombay, India.


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