HMS Curlew
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HMS
Curlew was a British light cruiser laid down by
Vickers-Armstrong 14.December 1917. She did service in
several squadrons and had different tasks in both Asia and
South America until she was put in the reserves in 1927.
In the mid 1930s the British Admiralty produced several
different prototypes of new warships, and HMS Curlew was
pointed out as a prototype for a new class of Antiaircraft
cruisers. She was still at the shipyard at the outbreak of
second world war in 1939, but was soon transferred to Home
Fleet. Under the German invasion of Norway in April 1940,
the Allies launched an expedition to help Norway in their
fight. Curlew did service as an escort along the Norwegian
coastline and 26.May 1940 she laid anchored outside
Skånland when she was attacked by German planes. She was
heavily damaged under the attack and was put ashore and
abandoned. After the war she was salvaged on site by
Norwegian company Høvding Skipsopphugging and the few
remains that's left of her rest on a depth of 5 to 40
meter at Breistrand.
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| 68° 32' 17" N, 16° 37' 18" E  Picture: HMS Curlew Courtesy of World War |
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