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HMS Mauritius (80)

Light cruiser of the Fiji class


HMS Mauritius in April 1942

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeLight cruiser
ClassFiji 
Pennant80 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 
Ordered 
Laid down31 Mar, 1938 
Launched19 Jul, 1939 
Commissioned1 Jan, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryArrived at Inverkeithing to be scrapped T.W. Ward Ltd. on 27 March 1965.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Leicester Charles Assheton Curzon-Howe, MVO, RN
30 August 1940 - 1 February 1941

Capt. William Derek Stephens, RN
1 February 1941 – December 1942

Capt. William Wellclose Davis, DSO, RN
December 1942 – 23 October 1944
DSO awarded on 19 May 1944

Capt. Charles Alfred Evelyn Stanfield, RN
23 October 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

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