Light cruiser of the Dido class
HMS Sirius in 1942 or 1943
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Light cruiser |
| Class | Dido |
| Pennant | 82 |
| Built by | Portsmouth D.Y. (Portsmouth, U.K.): Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 6 Apr, 1938 |
| Launched | 18 Sep, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 6 May, 1942 |
| End service | , 1949 |
| Loss position | |
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| History | HMS 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). |
