Name HMS Bonaventure Commissioned 24 May 1940 Launched 19 April 1939 Draft 4.3 m | Laid down 30 August 1937 Construction started 30 August 1937 Length 156 m | |
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Fate Torpedoed by the Italian submarine Ambra south of Crete, 31 March 1941 (139 lost) Class and type Dido-class light cruiser Displacement 5,600 long tons (5,700 t) (standard)
6,850 long tons (6,960 t) (full load) Builder Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | ||
HMS Bonaventure was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. Bonaventure participated as an escort vessel in Operation Fish, the World War II evacuation of British wealth from the UK to Canada. It was the largest movement of wealth in history.
On 10 January 1941 she, along with HMS Southampton and/or HMS Hereward, shelled and sank the Italian torpedo boat Vega off Cape Bon, Tunisia, Operation "Excess".
On 31 March 1941 she was torpedoed and sunk south of Crete (33°20′N 26°35′E) by the Italian submarine Ambra with the loss of 139 of her 480 crew. 310 survivors rescued by HMS Hereward and HMAS Stuart.
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