"Wide World" Photo. Launching H.M.S. Dido at Birkenhead on. July 18. The Dido is the name-ship of a new class of cruisers of about 5000 tons displacement. These ships will mount 6in guns. As a result of building acceleration for the Royal Navy a ivhole fleet will be put into the water in the next month or two.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 7
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58"Wide World" Photo. Launching H.M.S. Dido at Birkenhead on. July 18. The Dido is the name-ship of a new class of cruisers of about 5000 tons displacement. These ships will mount 6in guns. As a result of building acceleration for the Royal Navy a ivhole fleet will be put into the water in the next month or two. Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 7
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