HMS Delhi (D47)

HMS Delhi was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, built by Armstrong Whitworth, laid down in 1917, launched on 23 August 1918 and commissioned in 1919. She served through the Second World War from the Caribbean to eastern China: in the Baltic against the Soviet republics in 1919, on the 1923 Empire Cruise escorting Hood and Repulse, off Spain during the Civil War, in the blockade of Germany and at the Battle of Dakar. Refitted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1941 with 5-inch/38 calibre guns, she gave shore bombardment and anti-aircraft support at Algiers, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio and in Operation Dragoon, and was damaged in 1942 and 1945. Laid up after the war, she was sold on 22 January 1948 and scrapped at Newport.