Light Cruiser

Vickers Armstrongs Ltd.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

60

December 20, 1937

September 23, 1940

February 8, 1938

N/A (UK)
Aug. 20, 1985 (India)

July 18, 1939

N/A

Scrapped in 1986.

June 25, 1941:

Intercepted the German weather ship Lauenberg in company with HMS Tartar F-43,
HMS Bedouin G-67 and HMS Jupiter G-85 in the Norwegian Sea 300 miles N north of
Jan Mayen Island. The crew of the HMS Tartar recovered the Enigma machine and
code books then scuttled the ship by gunfire.

Aug. 12, 1942:

Torpedoed by the Italian submarine Axum while escorting a convoy to Malta. Nigeria
was repaired at the Charleston Naval Shipyard in South Carolina but was out of action
for nine months.

Mar. 12, 1943:

Rescued 30 survivors of the U.S. Liberty ship James B. Stephens which had been sunk by U-160 on Mar. 8.

Aug. 29, 1957:

Sold to India and renamed INS Mysore.

Aug. 20, 1985:

Decommissioned from the Indian Navy.

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