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| |Ship classDido class cruiser light cruiser |Ship nameHMS Black Prince |Ship namesakeEdward, the Black Prince |Ship ordered |Ship awarded |Ship builderHarland & Wolff (Belfast Northern Ireland |Ship laid down1 December 1939 |Ship launched27 August 1942 |Ship christened |Ship acquired |Ship commissioned30 November 1943 |Ship recommissioned |Ship decommissionedMarch 1962 |Ship in service |Ship out of serviceLoaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy 25 May 1946 |Ship renamed |Ship reclassified |Ship refit |Ship captured |Ship struck |Ship reinstated |Ship fateSold for scrapping in March 1962, arrived at Mitsui Osaka breakage yards, Japan on 2 May 1962 for breaking up. |Ship status |Ship homeport }} |Ship class |Ship nameHMNZS Black Prince |Ship ordered |Ship awarded |Ship builder |Ship laid down |Ship launched |Ship christened |Ship acquired |Ship commissioned17 April 1946 |Ship recommissioned |Ship decommissioned |Ship in service |Ship out of serviceReturned to Royal Navy control on 1 April 1961 |Ship renamed |Ship reclassified |Ship refit |Ship captured |Ship struck |Ship reinstated |Ship fate |Ship status |Ship homeport }} pp
512 oa (156 m) |Ship beam |Ship draught |Ship draft |Ship propulsionParsons Marine Steam Turbine Company geared turbines
Four shafts
Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
62,000 shp (46 MW) |Ship speed |Ship range2,414 km (1,500 miles) at 30 knots
6,824 km (4,240 miles) at 16 knots
1,100 tons fuel oil |Ship endurance |Ship test depth |Ship boats |Ship capacity |Ship complement530 |Ship time to activate |Ship sensors |Ship EW |Ship armament Original configuration
8 x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual guns,
6 x 20 mm dual AA guns,
3 x 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms quad guns,
2 x 21 in (533 mm) triple Torpedo Tubes. Early 1945 - Mid 1946 configuration
8 × 5.25 in (133 mm) (4 × 2)
12 × 2 pdr (1.5 in) pom-poms (3 × 4)
24 × 20 mm AA (8 × 2, 8 × 1)
6 × 21 in (533 mm) Torpedo Tubes (2 × 3) |Ship armor Original configuration
Belt: 3 inch,
Deck: 1 inch,
Magazines: 2 inch,
Bulkheads: 1 inch. |Ship aircraft |Ship motto |Ship nickname |Ship honours |Ship notesPennant number 81 }} |} HMS Black Prince was a [[Dido class cruiser|Dido -class]] light cruiser of the Royal Navy of the Bellonasubgroup. She was a modified Didodesign, sometimes called DidoGroup 2, with only 4 5.25 inch mounts instead of 5, and improved anti-aircraft armament. She was built by Harland & Wolff of Belfast Northern Ireland with her keel being laid down on 1 December 1939Janes Fighting Ships of World War II, London: Random House ISBN 1-851-70494-9http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4022.html HMS Black Prince at Uboat.net]. She was launched on 27 August 1942, and commissioned on 30 November 1943. Black Princewas named after Edward, the Black Prince (1330-1376), the eldest son of King Edward III After commissioning, Black Princeserved on Arctic convoys and then came south in preparation for the invasion of Europe being employed on offensive sweeps against German coastal convoy traffic. On the night of 25 April to 26 April 1944, accompanied by destroyer , she was involved in the action which sank the torpedo boat German destroyer T29 and damaged German destroyer T24 and German destroyer T27 off the north Brittany coast. During the Normandy landings she was part of Force "A" of Task Force 125 in support of Utah Beach Task Force 125 at this time consisted of the battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) the cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71) USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) and Black Prince the Monitor (warship) HMS Erebus (I02) and several destroyers and destroyer escortshttp://www.go2war2.nl/artikel/1091/Overlord-Assault-Force-U-Utah.htm Go2War2.nl - Overlord, Assault Force U (Utah)]. Her target was the battery of Morsalines lt;ref>Buffetaut Y. (1994). D-Day Ships London: Conway Maritime Press ISBN 0-85177-639-6http://www.jeroenkoppes.com/ww2/ships/hms_blackprince.asp HMS Black Prince]. In August 1944 she moved to the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II for the Operation Dragoon lt;ref name"nh.net">http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-06CL-BlackPrince.htm Naval-History.net - HMS Black Prince]. She was then sent to the Aegean Sea waters in September 1944. On 8 September 1944 Black Princearrived at Alexandria, Egypt where she was ordered sweep the area around Scarpanto and the Gulf of Salonica On one occasion she bombarded the airfield at Maleme on the island of Crete to prevent Germany aircraft from taking off. On 21 November 1944 Black Princeleft Alexandria passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea and then on into the Indian Ocean She arrived at Colombo in Ceylon on 30 November to join the British Pacific Fleet where she covered the aircraft carrier raids against Japan se oil installations and airfields in Sumatra and British Malaya (Operation Meridian . On 16 January 1945 she sailed as part of the British Pacific Fleet seeing action off Okinawa and in the final bombardments of the Japanese mainland before withdrawing to reoccupy Hong Kong in September 1945. After the Japanese surrender she remained in the Far East and was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy on 25 May 1946. She reverted to Royal Navy control, still in an un-modernised condition, on 1 April 1961. She was sold for scrapping in March 1962; she was towed from Auckland on 5 April 1962 to the Mitsui Osaka breakage yards Japan by the Japanese tug Benten Maru arriving there on 2 May 1962 for breaking up.

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