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The First Euryalus a fifth rate 36 gun frigate
1803 - 1850

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The Second Euryalus a fourth rate 51 gun screw frigate
1853 - 1867

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The Third Euryalus a screw driven cruiser
1877 - 1897

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The Fourth Euryalus a Cressy Class armoured cruiser
1901 - 1920

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The Fifth Euryalus C42 Dido Class light cruiser
1941 - 1959

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The Sixth Euryalus F15 Leander Class anti-submarine frigate
1964 - 1989

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C42 - The Fifth Euryalus
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C42 Keel Plate laying ceremony HM Dockyard Chatham.
21 October 1937
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C42 Keel Plate
laying ceremony
21 October 1937
C42 Launching ceremony, HM Dockyard Chatham.
6 June 1939
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C42 Launching
ceremony
6 June 1939
Passing through the Suez Canal in reverse direction enroute to Alexandria
watched by Egyptian minespotting.
Post October 1941
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Passing through
the Suez Canal
October 1941
Captain Eric W. Bush DSO, DSC, R.N., on the bridge of HMS Euryalus enroute
to bombard Rhodes Eastern Mediterranean.
15 March 1942
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Captain Eric W. Bush
DSO, DSC, RN
15 March 1942
View from the bridge of HMS Euryalus as she prepares to engage Italian cruisers
Captain Eric W. Bush DSO, DSC, R.N. facing camera. Alexandria to Malta convoy.
22 March 1942
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Preparing to engage
Italian cruisers
22 March 1942
TASK FORCE 57 - British Pacific Fleet
Aircraft carriers HMS Formidable (foreground), Indomitable with the
4th Cruiser Squadron in the background - (left to right) Gambia, Uganda
and Euryalus at anchor in San Pedro Bay, Leyte.
April 1945
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TASK FORCE 57
British Pacific Fleet
San Pedro Bay, Leyte
April 1945
TASK FORCE 57
Refuelling enroute to join the U.S. Third Fleet off Japan Fleet. 
Fleet tanker San Ambrosio refuelling cruiser Euryalus and carrier Formidable. July 1945
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TASK FORCE 57
Refuelling
July 1945
TASK FORCE 57
Enroute to join the U.S. Third Fleet off Japan. HMS Euryalus being oiled at sea from 
Fleet tanker San Ambrosio while transferring stores to destroyer Undaunted. July 1945
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TASK FORCE 57
Transfer at Sea
July 1945
Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background.
1 October 1945
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Sydney Harbour Bridge
in the background.
1 October 1945
Passing under Sydney Harbour Bridge enroute to Woolloomooloo Dockyard for a refit. 
October 1945
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Passing under Sydney
Harbour Bridge 
October 1945
Making headway. Where abouts unknown but post 1943 as
she onlyhas her 2 forward gun turrets.
Post 1943

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Making headway
post 1943
Entering Grand Harbour Malta 
1951

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Grand Harbour Malta
1951
The 1st Reunion onboard HMS Belfast
15 October 1977

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The 1st Reunion
onboard HMS Belfast
15 October 1977
 
 
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