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HMS Coventry (D43)
HMS ''Coventry'' was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the English city of Coventry. She was part of the ''Ceres'' group of the C-class of cruisers.
==Early career and wartime service==
''Coventry'' was initially going to be called HMS ''Corsair''. She was laid down on 4 August 1916, launched 6 July 1917 and completed for naval service in February 1918. HMS ''Coventry'' was in the 5th Light Cruiser squadron from February 1918 till May 1919, and served in the Baltic in this time. Commissioned with the pennant (D43) in May 1919 she was accepted into the Atlantic fleet, until in 1920 when HMS ''Coventry'' became the HQ ship for naval Inter allied Disarmament Commission. She went into refit in late 1920 and once the refit was completed she joined the 2nd Light cruiser squadron and she became flagship to the Rear-Admiral (), Mediterranean Fleet Andrew Cunningham. A torpedo explosion while in Gibraltar in March 1923 caused the death of two of her crew, Chief Stoker Burt and ERA Jackson. At the outbreak of World War II HMS ''Coventry'' was serving with the Home Fleet between 1939 and 1940, and was damaged on 1 January 1940 in a German air attack on the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland. She was assigned to the Mediterranean fleet in 1940, and was torpedoed and damaged by the Italian submarine ''Neghelli'' in the eastern Mediterranean. ''Coventry'' also participated in the Battle of Cape Spartivento.〔A Sailor's Odyssey , the Autobiography of R/A Cunningham.〕
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