HMS Enterprise (D52)
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HMS Enterprise was one of two Emerald-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by John Brown & Company, with the keel being laid down on 28 June 1918. She was launched on 23 Decemb
Enterprise in November 1943
Enterprise at Haifa on 6 May 1936
1936 photo showing the experimental twin turret
Cornwall sinking after a Japanese attack, Enterprise rescued some of her crew.
HMS Cornwall (56)
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HMS Cornwall, pennant number 56, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship spent most of her pre-World War II career assigned to the Ch
HMS Enterprise (D52)
…trade for the next year. On 6 April 1942, together with the destroyers Paladin and Panther, she picked up some of the 1,120 survivors of the cruisers Cornwall and Dorsetshire, which had been sunk by the Japanese in their Easter Sunday Raid. The Easter Sunday Raid was part of the larger Japanese Indian Ocean…
Cornwall at anchor, 1929
Dorsetshire (background) and Cornwall under air attack by Japanese aircraft, 5 April 1942