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HMS Emerald (D 66)

Light cruiser of the E class


HMS Emerald in 1944

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeLight cruiser
ClassE 
PennantD 66 
Built byArmstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Wallsend 
Ordered 
Laid down23 Sep, 1918 
Launched19 May, 1920 
Commissioned14 Jan, 1926 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to be broken up for scrap on 23 July 1948.
Arrived at Troon to be scrapped by Arnott Young on 5 July 1948.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO, RN
31 July 1939 – 1 June 1940

Capt. Francis Cyril Flynn, RN
1 June 1940 - ca. August 1942

HMS Emerald was in Dockyard Control during refit

Capt. Francis James Wylie, RN
March 1943 – 5 October 1944

Capt. R.W.M. Lloyd, DSO, RN (retired)
5 October 1944 – 9 March 1945

Capt. Wilfred Pearse Gandell, CBE, RN (retired)
9 March 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Emerald include:

10 Oct, 1940
The British cruisers HMS Newcastle (Capt. E.A. Aylmer, DSC, RN) and HMS Emerald (Capt. F.C. Flynn, RN), with the British destroyers HMS Broke (Cdr. B.G. Scurfield, RN) and HMS Wanderer (Cdr. J.H. Ruck-Keene, DSC, RN) of the 17th DF and the Polish destroyers Garland (Cdr. K. Namiesniowski, ORP) and Burza (Cdr. A. Doroszkowski, ORP) act as a screen to the British battleship HMS Revenge (Capt. E.R. Archer, RN) during a bombardment of Cherbourg.


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