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… View On WordPress from JC’sContinue reading “HMS Swiftsure”

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… View On WordPress from JC’sContinue reading “HMS Swiftsure”