HMS Swiftsure (08)

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The British warship, Swiftsure, entering Victoria Harbour through North Point on 30 August 1945.
The British warship, Swiftsure, entering Victoria Harbour through North Point on 30 August 1945.

HMS Swiftsure (pennant number 08) was a Minotaur class light cruiser of the Royal Navy.

She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne in September 1941, launched in February 1943 and commissioned in June 1944. During the Second World War, she served in the Far East and oversaw the surrender of Japanese forces in Hong Kong in August 1945.


Her last trip was to Inverkeithing for scrapping, arriving on 17 October 1962

[edit] See also

See HMS Swiftsure for other ships of the same name.



Minotaur-class cruiser
Royal Navy
Swiftsure | Superb | Minotaur
Hawke | Bellerophon (not completed)
Blake | Defence later Lion | Bellerophon later Tiger completed as Tiger class
Royal Canadian Navy
Ontario (ex-Minotaur)

List of cruisers of the Royal Navy
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