{"product_id":"hms-orion-85-leander-class-light-cruiser-february-1942-photo-print","title":"HMS Orion 85 Leander Class Light Cruiser February 1942 Photo Print","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"HMS Orion Photo prints\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/search?q=%22hms+orion%22\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003eHMS Orion\u003c\/a\u003e (85), a Royal Navy \u003ca title=\"Royal Navy Leander Class Photo prints\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/collections\/royal-navy-leander-class-cruisers-photo-prints\"\u003eLeander Class\u003c\/a\u003e light \u003ca title=\"Royal Navy Cruisers Photo prints\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/collections\/royal-navy-cruisers-photo-prints\"\u003ecruiser\u003c\/a\u003e, is under way on 20th February 1942 after completing repairs at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California, seen from off her port bow with her ship’s company lining the rails along her forecastle and decks. Her twin forward turrets, single broad funnel and tall masts stand out in fresh grey paint against a pale sky, with low hills faint on the horizon behind her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBuilt at Devonport Dockyard and commissioned in January 1934, she earned 13 battle honours, a total bettered only by HMS Warspite. She fought at Calabria and Cape Matapan, and on 29th May 1941, evacuating some 1,900 troops from Crete, she was bombed and so badly damaged that about 360 people died, including 100 soldiers, before she limped back to Alexandria at 12 knots. After temporary repairs at Simonstown she crossed to California for the rebuild that ended with this photo, and returned to fight off Sicily, Salerno and Anzio, in southern France and the Aegean, and at Normandy, where she fired the first shell of the bombardment. She was scrapped at Dalmuir in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou can read more about the history of HMS Orion \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/blogs\/royal-navy-warship-and-submarine-classes-complete-guide\/hms-orion-85-thirteen-battle-honours-from-calabria-to-the-corfu-channel\" title=\"HMS Orion History\"\u003eHERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis print is ideal for Royal Navy veterans, families of those lost in the Crete evacuation and anyone with a connection to HMS Orion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImage Taken: 20th February 1942\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotographer: Royal Navy official photographer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e© Public Domain - Restored by Hampshire Prints\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Hampshire Prints","offers":[{"title":"6 x 4 \/ No Frame \/ 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