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On 16 July 1943, Cleopatra was torpedoed by the Italian submarine Dandolo and again badly damaged. Temporary repairs were made at Malta which lasted until October 1943, after which she sailed to Philadelphia, US, for full repairs. Like HMS Phoebe, Cleopatra was fitted with quad Bofors in place of its pom poms. Mediterranean experience had shown ...
HMS Cleopatra (33) was a Dido-class cruiser built in 1940 and broken up in 1958. HMS Cleopatra (F28) was a Leander-class frigate launched in 1964 and sold for scrap in 1993. The name can also refer to Cleopatra (1839), an East India Company paddle frigate built in 1839 and sunk by a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean in 1847.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
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In homage to this ship, they renamed Mariette to Cleopatra’s Barge II. The rigging was modified into a Bermuda rig. Writer James A. Michener was a regular guest aboard, and mentions the ship in his novel Chesapeake (1978). In 1939, Mariette was requisitioned for service with the US Coast Guard and used for patrols. [3] Crowninshield was given ...
Kaiser's C4 troop ship construction became Navy troop ships ("General" names), Sun's became WSA troopships operated by commercial agents. [4] In the 1960 the Navy sold off most of the General ships to private companies. Most were scrapped in the 1980s. USS General G. O. Squier (AP-130) USS General T. H. Bliss (AP-131)
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The forward Seacat launcher and director was removed, as was the long-range Type 965 radar, allowing the ship's mainmast to be replaced by a smaller mast. The Bofors guns were replaced by lighter Oerlikon 20 mm guns while the ship's boats were removed and the Exocet launchers and torpedo tubes lowered.