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HMS Argonaut |
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HMS Argonaut Laid Down : 21st November 1939 Launched : 6th September 1941 Completed : 8th August 1942 Type : Cruiser Class : Dido Builder : Cammell Laird Country : UK Pennants : 61 Fate : Scrapped 1955 |
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HMS Argonaut, May 1947. |
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21st November 1939 - Laid down 21st November 1939 - Laid down at Cammell Laird (Birkenhead) 6th September 1941 - Pennant Number 61 6th September 1941 - Launched At Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead ) 12th June 1942 - Commissioned August 1942 - Completed 8th August 1942 - Commissioned 13th August 1942 - Sailed Scapa Flow for Spitzbergen 13th August 1942 - Capt. Longley-Cook in Command October 1942 - Sailed Scapa Flow. Support for Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch) 30th October 1942 - Arrived Gibraltar 1st December 1942 - 12th Cruiser Squadron 1st December 1942 - Joined Force Q 3rd December 1942 - Capt. E.W.L. Longley-Cooke in Command 3rd December 1942 - Engaged enemy convoy bound for Tunisia 13th December 1942 - Sailed Bone to intercept Axis convoy 14th December 1942 - Hit by two torpedoes from the Italian Submarine Mocenigo 4th April 1943 - Sailed Gibraltar for the USA 4th April 1943 - Capt. Haynes in Command 7th April 1943 - Arrived Ponta Delgada 8th April 1943 - Sailed Ponta Delgada 17th April 1943 - Arrived Bermuda 27th April 1943 - Sailed Bermuda 30th April 1943 - Arrived Philadelphia 13th November 1943 - Repairs completed at Philadelphia December 1943 - Arrived UK 4th April 1944 - Joined 10th Cruiser Squadron 4th June 1944 - Sailed Greenock 4th June 1944 - 10th Cruiser Squadron 6th June 1944 - At Normandy Landings 6th June 1944 - Participated in the Normandy Landings August 1944 - Transferred to the Mediterranean for Operation Dragoon September 1944 - Moved to the Aegean November 1944 - Ordered to Trincomalee November 1944 - Capt. W. P. McCarthy January 1945 - British Pacific Fleet 16th January 1945 - Formed Part of Force 63 25th August 1945 - At Leyte 4th September 1945 - Sailed Leyte 11th September 1945 - Sailed Kiirun Formosa January 1946 - Decommissioned 6th July 1946 - Arrived Portsmouth July 1955 - Broken up at Cashmore’s Shipyard in Newport, Gwent |
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Last edited : 21:21, February 20, 2011
By : jbryce1437
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