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HMS Sirius (82)

Light cruiser of the Dido class


HMS Sirius in 1942 or 1943

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeLight cruiser
ClassDido 
Pennant82 
Built byPortsmouth D.Y. (Portsmouth, U.K.): Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Apr, 1938 
Launched18 Sep, 1940 
Commissioned6 May, 1942 
End service, 1949 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMS Sirius completion was delayed by German bombing.

Arrived at Blyth on 15 October 1956 to be scrapped by Hughes Bolkow.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Patrick William Beresford Brooking, RN
27 February 1942 – September 1943

Capt. Roderick Latimer Mackenzie Edwards, RN
September 1943 – 21 August 1945
CBE 11 January 1944

Capt. Philip Sydney Smith, RN
21 August 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Sirius include:

7 Oct, 1943
The Britsh light cruisers HMS Penelope (Capt. G.D. Belben, DSC, RN) and HMS Sirius (Capt. P.B.W. Brooking, DSO, RN) and the British destroyers HMS Faulknor (Capt. A.K. Scott-Moncrieff, DSO, RN) and HMS Fury (Lt.Cdr. T.F. Taylor, RN), north of Astipalea (Stampalia) in the Dodecanese, attacked a German convoy consisting of the auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 2111 (667 tons, former Italian Tramaglio), cargo Olympus (5216 GRT) and 7 MFPs, sinking all but one MFP.
On the return leg of the mission, the British were repeatedly attacked by German planes while transiting Karpathos Strait (Scarpanto).


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