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HMS Cleopatra (33)

Light cruiser of the Dido class


HMS Cleopatra on completion in 1941

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeLight cruiser
ClassDido 
Pennant33 
Built byHawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down5 Jan, 1939 
Launched27 Mar, 1940 
Commissioned5 Dec, 1941 
End service15 Feb, 1953 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned on 15 February 1953.
Arrived at Newport to be scrapped by Cashmore on 15 December 1958.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Matthew Sausse Slattery, RN
10 June 1941- 17 March 1942

Capt. Guy Grantham, DSO, RN
17 March 1942 – August 1942

Capt. John Felgate Stevens, RN
August 1942 – 28 July 1943

Cdr. Maurice James Ross, DSO and Bar, RN
28 July 1943 – January 1944

A/Cdr. Geoffrey Lyttelton Lowis, AFC, RN (retired)
January 1944 – May 1944

Cdr. R.M. Freer, RN
May 1944 – 1 September 1944

Capt. Ballin Illingworth Robertshaw, CBE, RN
1 September 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Cleopatra include:

16 Jul, 1943
HMS Cleopatra (Capt. G. Grantham, DSO, RN) was torpedoed and heavily damaged off Sicily in position 37º06'N, 16º04'E by the Italian submarine Dandolo. She was patched up at Malta and left for the United States for permanent repairs in October 1943. There repairs were completed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in November 1944. (see map)

, 1953
Featured as HMS Amesbury in the 1953 film Sailor of the King.


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