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World War Ii Had Begun When Hms Bermuda(c52) Was Laid Down At John Browns Clydebank Yard In November 1939 From Where She Was Launched In November 1941. Commissioned Into War On The 21st Of August 1942 She Was The Last Of The Eight 'fiji' Class Crui

World War Ii Had Begun When Hms Bermuda(c52) Was Laid Down At John Browns Clydebank Yard In November 1939 From Where She Was Launched In November 1941. Commissioned Into War On The 21st Of August 1942 She Was The Last Of The Eight 'fiji' Class Cruisers Built And One Of Six That Survived The War. The 'fiji' Was Sunk Off Crete In May 1941 After Just One Year In Service And The Other Loss Was The 'trinidad' In The Barents Sea On The 14th Of May 1942 And Seven Months After First Commissioning. Driven By Four Admiralty 3-drum Boilers Through Parsons Geared Turbines To 4 Shafts She Could Be Whipped Into Doing 31 Knots With 72000 Shp. I Dont Know How Far She Could Have Gone At That Speed But Full Bunkers Gave Her A Range Of Some 10 000 Plus Miles At Around 12 Knots To Meet The Need For Extended Support And Escort Work. Her Main Armaments Were Made Up Of Four Turrets Of Triple 6'(152mm) Guns With Four Turrets Of Twin 4'(102mm) Guns On The After Funnel Deck And A Further Fourteen 40/20mm Guns. Additionally She Had Six 21'(533mm)torpedo Tubes. Some 970 Souls Tucked Themselves Into The Available Corners Of Her 555'6'(169.3m)overall Length 62'(18.9m) Beam And 16-21(5-6.4m) Feet Draught That Displaced Between 8 000 & 10 500(8128/10 670t)tons. 'bermuda' Was Immediately And Proudly 'adopted' By The Town Of West Bromwich As She Set Out To Join The 10th Cruiser Squadron. With Them She Was Quick To Earn Her First Battle Honour As She Played Her Part In Operation Torch The North African Landings In November 1942. She Came Through That Unscathed And From There She Went Back Out Into The Atlantic On Surface Escort Group Activities In Biscay. At The Beginning Of June '43 She Was Sent Up To The Arctic Running Men And Machines Into Spitzbergen. After That It Was Back South Again And Into The Bay Of Biscay To Join In The Air And Sea Effort To Pen In The U-boats Operating Out Of The Bay Ports. This Was A Highly Successful Operation During Which 25 U-boats Were Sunk. At The Same Tim.

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