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One of the early British ships refitted in the US under the Lend-Lease agreement.

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From May to December, 1941 Delhi was refitted as an anti-aircraft cruiser at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This refit included 5"/38 calibre gun barrels originally intended for USS Edison, and were hand-picked by Edison's commanding officer, but were ordered transferred to Delhi by President Roosevelt himself. With her new dual purpose main armament, she took part in a number of allied landings in the Mediterranean, (Sicily, Salerno and Algiers). On 20 November, 1942 Delhi was damaged by enemy action in Algiers Bay when her stern was blown off by Italian aircraft, whilst she was making smoke to protect the fleet. She returned to Britain and was under repair until April 1943.

During Operation Shingle, the Allied landings at Anzio, she collided with another Royal Navy ship whilst avoiding an air attack at night and suffered damage to her bow. Several ships were sent to relieve her, including HMS Spartan, but all were sunk. She was repaired at sea and remained in service for the rest of the war, taking part in fleet activity prior to D-Day to create uncertainty as to the actual landing zones.

On 12 February 1945 she was attacked and damaged by six German explosive motorboats in the harbour at Split, Croatia. The attack missed the Delhi and struck a nearby landing craft. The force of the resulting explosion caused the Delhi's rudder to jam and she had to be towed to Malta.

She returned to Britain and was laid up after the war. She was not fully repaired, and was instead sold on 22 January 1948 to be broken up. She arrived at the yards of Cashmore, of Newport in April 1948 to be scrapped.

Very nice work!

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Nice story. Sad end to a fine ship.

Excellent work!

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I whole heartedly argee Keep up the fine work

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She is very nice looking. Good job BTW are you sure her pennant number was D43? I'm pretty sure it was D47 (but I've seen that U-boat net says D74)

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You are quite right Kim it is D47, damned if I know where I got the 43 from. (D43 was HMS Coventry).

I will update the drawing, but I have no idea if I can alter the thread header.

Maybe one of the nice admins will take pity on my stupidity and help me out.

just edit the first post name, the thread header will change with it but all later posts will keep the 43 (IIRC), but that's not really important (IIRC)

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Thank you Ace - always nice to find new ways that I can show how silly I can be from time to time.

Anybody who has saved the drawing to their computer can note that I actually got the right number in the file name. It was just on the drawing itself (altered) and this thread that I managed to stuff up.

Great work!