HMS Swiftsure

British Minotaur class light cruiser HMS SWIFTSURE at anchor.

HMS Swiftsure was a Minotaur-classlight cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 22 September 1941, launched on 4 February 1943 by Lady Wake-Walker and commissioned on 22 June 1944. The first of a new Minotaur class, a development of the later Colony class with extra beam and a…

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