HMS Naiad on Malta convoy operations, May 1941
Career
Built By:	Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK)
Laid down:	26 August 1937
Launched:	3 February 1939
Commissioned:	24 July 1940
Fate:	Sunk, 11 March 1942 while seeking a reported damaged Italian cruiser by torpedoes from German submarine U-565, south of Crete (77 lost).
Penant:	93
General Characteristics
Type:	Light (Anti Aircraft) Cruiser
Displacement:	5,600 tons standard 6,850 tons full load For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Image File history File links RN-White-Ensign. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... This article is about the year. ... Crete (Greek Κρήτη Kriti; called Candia in the Venetian period and Turkish: Girit) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ...
Dimensions:	485 pp, 512 oa x 50.5 x 14 feet (156 x 15.4 x 4.3 m)
Armament:	Original configuration: 10 x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual guns, 2 x 0.5 in MG quadruple guns, 2 x 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms quad guns, 2 x 21 in (533 mm) triple Torpedo Tubes. 1941 - 1942 configuration: 10 x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual guns, 5 x 20 mm (0.8 in) single guns, 2 x 0.5 in MG quadruple guns, 2 x 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms quad guns, 2 x 21 in (533 mm) triple Torpedo Tubes.
Armour:	Original configuration: Belt: 3 inch, Deck: 1 inch, Magazines: 2 inch, Bulkheads: 1 inch.
Propulsion:	Parsons geared turbines, 4 shafts, 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 62,000 shp (46 MW) = 32.25 knots maximum speed
Range:	2,414 km (1,500 miles) at 30 knots, 6,824 (4,240 miles) at 16 knots ; 1,100 tons fuel oil
Complement:	480

HMS Naiad was a Dido class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK), with the keel being laid down on the 26 August 1937. She was launched on the 3 February 1939, and commissioned 24 July 1940. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services being the oldest of its three branches. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...

Naiad was named after a Greek mythological figure, the Naiad. --65. ...

History

Naiad joined the Home Fleet and was used for ocean trade protection duties. As part of the 15th Cruiser Squadron she took part in operations against German raiders following the sinking of Jervis Bay on 5 November 1940. In December and January she escorted WS convoys to Freetown, but at the end of January 1941 she was back in northern waters when she briefly sighted the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau south of Iceland as the German ships were in the course of breaking out into the Atlantic. The Home Fleet is the traditional name of the fleet of the Royal Navy that protects the United Kingdoms territorial waters. ... HMS Jervis Bay was a British Armed Merchant Cruiser, pennant F40, sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Map of Sierra Leone showing the capital Freetown Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Scharnhorst was a 31,500 tonne Gneisenau class battlecruiser of the German Kriegsmarine, named after the Prussian general and army reformer Gerhard von Scharnhorst and to commemorate the World War I armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst. ... Gneisenau was a 31,100 ton Scharnhorst class battlecruiser of the German Kriegsmarine. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ...

By May 1941 Naiad was with Force "H" on Malta convoy operations, and Flagship of the 15th Cruiser Squadron. She participated in the Crete operations and then operated against Vichy-French forces in Syria, where, together with Leander, she engaged the French Guepard. For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Crete (Greek Κρήτη Kriti; called Candia in the Venetian period and Turkish: Girit) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ... The Opera in Vichy. ... HMNZS Leander was the lead ship of her class of light cruisers. ...

The remainder of her service was in the Mediterranean, mostly connected with the continual attempts to resupply Malta. However, in March 1942 Naiad sailed from Alexandria to attack an Italian cruiser reported damaged. This report was false, and on the return Naiad (Capt. G. Grantham, RN) was sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean, north of Sidi Barrrani, Egypt in position 32.01N, 26.20E by one torpedo from the German submarine U-565. 82 members of her crew went down with the ship, there were 398 survivors. The Mediterranean region. ... This article is about the year. ... This article needs to be updated. ... The Mediterranean region. ...

See HMS Naiad for other ships of this name. Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Naiad after a Greek mythological figure, the Naiad HMS Naiad (F39) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...