HMS Arethusa (26)

HMS Arethusa in April 1942
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Arethusa
NamesakeArethusa
Ordered1 September 1932[1]
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid down25 January 1933
Launched6 March 1934
Commissioned23 May 1935
Decommissioned1945
Refit
  • Sep - Oct 1937
  • Oct 1940 – Jan 1941
IdentificationPennant number: 26
MottoCeleriter Audax (Latin:"Swiftly and audacious")[1]
Honours and
awards
Ushant 1778 & 1781 - St Lucia 1796 - Curaçao 1807 - Black Sea 1854 - China 1900 - Heligoland 1914 - Dogger Bank 1915 - Norway 1940-41 - Malta Convoys 1941-42 - Normandy 1944[1]
FateScrapped at Cashmores, Newport 1950
General characteristics
Class and typeArethusa-class light cruiser
Displacement
Length506 ft (154 m)
Beam51 ft (16 m)
Draught16.5 ft (5.0 m)
Propulsion
  • Four Parsons geared steam turbines
  • Four Admiralty 3-drum oil-fired boilers
  • Four shafts
  • 64,000 shp
Speed32 knots (59 km/h)
Range5,300 nmi (9,800 km) at 13 knots (24 km/h)[2]
Complement500
Sensors and
processing systems
Type 286 radar (1941), replaced in 1942 by Type 273, Type 281, Type 282, Type 284, Type 285[2]
Armament;Original configuration
6 × BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval guns (3×2)
4 × 4-inch (102 mm) AA guns (4×1)
2 × .50 caliber quadruple machine guns
6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3)
1941 additions
8 × 2-pounder (40 mm) AA guns (2×4)
2 × UP mountings (removed April 1942)
4 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns (4×1)
April 1942 configuration
6 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns (3×2)
8 × 4-inch (102 mm) AA guns (4×2)
8 × 2-pounder (40 mm) AA guns (2×4) (increased to 11)
8 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns (8×1)
6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3)
April 1944 configuration
6 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns (3×2)
8 × 4-inch (102 mm) AA guns (4×2)
8 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns (2×4)
16 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns (8×1; 4×2)
6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3)[2]
Armour;Original configuration
1 to 3 inches – magazine protection
2.25 inches – belt
1 inches – deck, turrets and bulkheads[2]
Aircraft carriedOne Hawker Osprey (Fairey Seafox from 1937) (removed 1940)[2]

HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Chatham Dockyard, with the keel being laid down on 25 January 1933. She was launched on 6 March 1934, and commissioned 21 May 1935 by Captain Philip Vian.

History

Arethusa was assigned to the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean on completion and was still there at the onset of World War II in September 1939. However, early in 1940 she and her sister Penelope were recalled to the Home Fleet, where they formed the 2nd Cruiser Squadron with the remainder of the class. She participated in the Norwegian Campaign in April 1940, but on 8 May she joined the Nore Command, where she supported the defending forces in Calais and later aided the evacuations from French Atlantic ports.

On 28 June 1940 she was a component of the newly formed Force "H" at Gibraltar, with which she participated in the action against Vichy French forces at Mers el Kebir in July 1940.[3] With Force "H" she took part in convoy protection patrols in the Atlantic and operated in the Mediterranean.

During the sortie of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941 she was employed in Iceland and Faroes waters, but by July she had returned to the Mediterranean, where she escorted Malta convoys and herself ran supply trips to the island. Towards the end of 1941 she returned to home waters and took part in the Lofoten raid[4] in December, where she was damaged by near misses.[5] After refit and repair at Chatham until April 1942, she returned to the Mediterranean in June 1942, where she joined the 15th Cruiser Squadron, operating mostly in support of the resupply of Malta.

Position of Arethusa during the Invasion of Normandy

While on Operation Stoneage, a torpedo from an Italian aircraft struck Arethusa on 18 November 1942 and caused heavy casualties. She received temporary repair work in Alexandria that lasted until 7 February 1943, after which she proceeded to Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, for full repair.[6] These were completed by 15 December 1943,[a] and the ship then returned to Britain.

In 1941 Arethusa had been adopted by the people of the City of Swansea. A memorial relief to the 156 men killed in the November 1942 aircraft attack can still be viewed in the city's Maritime Quarter. Swansea Museum's reserve collection at its Landore facility contains the ship's badge, a 20mm Oerlikon AA gun salvaged from the Newport scrapyard, and a scale model of the ship.

She did not become fully operational again until early June 1944, when she sailed for the invasion of Normandy, forming part of Force "D" off Sword Beach. She had the honor of carrying King George VI across the channel to Normandy, when he toured the beaches and visited the Allied command headquarters. On 24 June she came under air attack in Seine Bay and sustained some damage. On 25 June a magnetic mine detonated in her wake. The shock damage was fairly extensive, the cruiser went to Portsmouth for repairs then to a commercial yard for yet another refit and did not return to service until September.

By January 1945, she was part of the 15th Cruiser Squadron with the Mediterranean Fleet and stayed there until October 1945 when she returned to the United Kingdom and was immediately placed in the reserve (at the Nore).

There was a tentative plan to sell her to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1946 but this came to nothing and she was placed in category 'B' reserve. Because the Navy considered her class of ships too small to be worth modernising, the Navy used Arethusa for trials and experiments in 1949 before allocating her to BISCO for disposal. On 9 May 1950, she arrived at Cashmore's, Newport, for breaking up.

Notes

  1. ^ Arethusa was steaming at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) when the torpedo hit the port side below B turret, blowing a hole 53 by 35 ft (16 by 11 m) in the side. The ship caught fire from A turret back to the bridge and flooded to the waterline for 100 ft (30 m) back from the bow. The ship listed to port by 15° and fuel oil was transferred to the starboard tanks to compensate; power failed except to the rear of the forward boiler room and the telephones failed. Despite the damage and occasional air attacks, Arethusa was towed backwards to Alexandria by Petard. After shifting the anchor chains astern, the crew managed to the starboard propeller under water and sail backwards at slow astern, arriving during the evening of 21 November; the ship was under repair for more than a year in the US.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Mason
  2. ^ a b c d e Whitley, pp.100,101
  3. ^ O'Hara, Vincent P. (2009). Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-648-3.
  4. ^ "Background Events, December 1941 to February 1942". Naval History. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
  5. ^ "Lofoten Islands 2nd Raid 26/27 December 1941". Combined Operations. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
  6. ^ Woodman, Richard (2003). Malta Convoys 1940–1943. London: John Murray. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-7195-6408-6.

References

  • Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
  • Friedman, Norman (2010). British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59114-078-8.
  • Raven, Alan & Roberts, John (1980). British Cruisers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-922-7.
  • Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
  • Whitley, M. J. (1995). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell. ISBN 1-86019-874-0.

Further reading

  • S.V. Patyanin (С.В.Патянин), Kreysera tipa Arethusa (Крейсера типа «Аретьюза»), series Morskaya Kollektsya 6/2002 (in Russian)

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