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| HMS Naiad |
 
Dates: 1939 - 1942 HMS Naiad was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company (Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK), with the keel being laid down on 26 August 1937. She was launched on 3 February 1939, and commissioned 24 July 1940. She initially joined the Home Fleet and was used for ocean trade protection duties. As part of the 15th Cruiser Squadron she took part in operations against German raiders following the sinking of HMS Jervis Bay in November 1940. In December and January she escorted convoys to Freetown, but at the end of January 1941 was back in northern waters when she briefly sighted the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau south of Iceland as the German ships were in the course of breaking out into the Atlantic (Operation Berlin). By May 1941 Naiad was with Force H on Malta convoy operations, and Flagship of the 15th Cruiser Squadron. She participated in the Crete operations and then operated against Vichy French forces in Syria, where, together with HMS Leander, she engaged the French destroyer Guepard. The remainder of her service was in the Mediterranean, mostly connected with the continual attempts to resupply Malta. However, in March 1942 she sailed from Alexandria to attack an Italian cruiser reported damaged. This report was false, and on the return, on 11 March 1942, HMS Naiad was sunk by the German submarine U-565 south of Crete. 77 of her complement were lost.
Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving HMS Naiad
" I am looking for some of my Dad’s old shipmates. Does anyone know him? Here are his details: Name: John Stevenson NickName: Jock or Stevo Service Number: P/K 050455 Service: Navy Base/Ship: HMS Ark Royal HMS Naiad HMS Devonshire Rank: Petty Officer (POME) Year Signed Up: 1959 Year ..."
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" Hi, I am the Webmaster for the updated HMS NAIAD website and am collating information about the ship. Please check out the site at www.hmsnaiad.co.uk There are photographs, a reunion page and guestbook available, with more content being added over the coming weeks. If you have any information ..."
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" Hi, I am the Webmaster for the updated HMS NAIAD website and am collating information about the ship. Please check out the site at www.hmsnaiad.co.uk There are photographs, a reunion page and guestbook available, with more content being added over the coming weeks. If you have any information ..."
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" HMS NAIAD is having it’s frst full reunion at The Queens Hotel, Portsmouth. October 31st to Nov 2nd. Full details are on the HMS NAIAD website, www.hmsnaiad.co.uk Please take a moment to check by. ThanksNaiad Webmaster "
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" To All Former Ship Mates HMS Naiad, A short introduction about myself I was on HMS Naiad from October 1966 until April 1970 and left the RN in 1974 to join Northumbria Police from which I am now retired. I live just outside of Middlesbrough at Wynyard Woods. After much sole searching I have come ..."
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278 people in our Napoleonic Wars records
14 people in our Pre Napoleonic records
419 people in our Forces Reunited records
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