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FACTS AND FIGURES
THE SAUCY ARETHUSA
Having emerged from a long refit in her new role as an antisubmarine frigate. H.M.S. Arethusa (motto: Swiftly Audacious) is keeping up her tradition as the "Saucy Arethusa." Many of the guests invited to sea with the new lkara Leander during preliminary trials were Wrens from H.M.S. Dryad and H.M.S. Nelson.
On each of several days the ship hosted about l5 Wrens who. after being shown
around the ship. soon employed themselves in the various dehelping out in the partments operations room. galley, stores ofiice and after a little practice. at the wheel. The girls were so friendly and efficient that it was agreed by many on board that their presence would be most welcome any time! The Arethusa refit was the first lkara Leander conversion to take place in Portsmouth Naval Base. the others having taken place at —
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For her_new role. the ship is armed with the lkara anttsubmarine missile and a tripleharrelled mortar. She also has two 40/60 Bofors and two Seacat
surface-to-air missile mountings. When fully operational she will be equipped with a Wasp helicopter providing a further antisubmarine weapon-carrying platform and an additional air-to-
surface
capability.
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H.M.S. Arethusa is the eighth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. The first. a 32-gun frigate of 700 tons. was captured from the French in l759. Her name was Anglicized from l-'Arethus:tand later she fought a famous action with the French frigate Belle Poulc. after which the ballad of the “Saucy Arethusa" was composed. When the preent Arethusa first commissioned in 1965 a march was specially composed based on the melody of the ballad. The second Arethusa. a 38-gun frigate launched in I78l. played an active part in the second Napoleonic war: the third. launched in l8l7. was renamed Bacchus in IBM: and the fourth. a 50-gun frigate of I849. saw action in the Crimea. her seamen going ashore to fight at the Battle or lnkerman. After leaving Navy service she became a boys‘ training ship and was eventually broken up in 1932. Seamen from the fifth Arethusa. a 4.300-ton cruiser launched in I882. also went ashore to fight this time during the Boxer rebellion of I900 when the ship was serving on the China station. The sixth ship. also a cruiser. was launched in l9l3. and fought several successful actions in the First World War before being mined and sunk in the North Sea in l9l6. Arethusa No. 7. a 5.270-ton cruiser of I935. was the largest ship to bear the name. She served with distinction throughout the Second World War. lighting at Norway and in the Mediterranean and leading the bombarding forces on D-Day. when King George VI visited forces in Normandy it was the Arethusa which took him there. The end of her days came when she was selected for scientific tests involving atomic rays before being broken up in I950.
The famous training ship Arethusa. an ex-German four-masted barque. was sold by the Shafin I974 and tesbury re laced the fol owing year by at. o shore cruising ketch of the
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Battle honours: Ushant I773 and 1781; St Lucia I796; Curacoa 1807: Black Sea 1854: China 1900:
Heligoland I914; Dogger Bank l9l5: Norway I940-41; Malta Convoys I9-tl-42: Normandy I944.
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