Editing Dido-class cruiser (section)

===''Dido''s===

''Bonaventure'' completed with only four twin 5.25-inch turrets because of shortages and received a 4-inch [[Shell (projectile)#Illumination|starshell]] gun in "X" position. She received a radar set before October 1940 but was otherwise unaltered. ''Naiad'' was completed with five turrets. She received five 20&nbsp;mm in September 1941 and had [[Type 279 radar]] by this time. {{HMS|Phoebe|43|2}} completed with four turrets and was fitted with a 4-inch gun in "C" position forward of the bridge. The latter was 'landed' (removed) during her refit between November 1941 and April 1942 at [[New York City]], along with the 0.5-inch machine guns and Type 279 radar, while a quadruple 2&nbsp;pdr replaced the 4-inch gun and eleven 20&nbsp;mm guns were fitted. Radars were now [[Type 281 radar|Type 281]], 284 and 285. The "A" turret was temporarily removed at the end of 1942 after [[torpedo]] damage. During repairs in the first six months of 1943, all three quadruple 2-pounder pom-pom mounts were landed, as were seven 20&nbsp;mm, to be replaced by three quadruple [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40&nbsp;mm Bofors guns]] and six twin 20&nbsp;mm. Radar Type 272 was also fitted. Her A turret was replaced in July 1943. Her light anti-aircraft weaponry in April 1944 was twelve 40&nbsp;mm (3 × 4) and sixteen 20&nbsp;mm (6 × dual, 4 × single).

''Dido'' had four turrets and a 4-inch gun similar to ''Phoebe''. The 4-inch and the machine guns were removed in the latter half of 1941 at [[Brooklyn Navy Yard]], when the "Q" position 5.25-inch turret was shipped and four 20&nbsp;mm were fitted, two of which replaced the original quadruple 0.5 mm machine guns. In the early summer of 1943 three 20&nbsp;mm were exchanged for four twin 20&nbsp;mm and the radar outfit was altered by the addition of Types 272, 282, 284 and 285. April 1944 lists show only eight 20&nbsp;mm.

[[File:HMS Birmingham convoy.jpg|thumb|The cruisers {{HMS|Edinburgh|16|2}}, ''Hermione'', and ''Euryalus'', steaming in line abreast whilst they escort a convoy (not visible) as part of [[Operation Halberd]] to resupply Malta]]
{{HMS|Euryalus|42|2}} completed with her designed armament. In September 1941 the .5-inch machine guns were landed and five single 20&nbsp;mm fitted. Two more were added by September 1942. By mid-1943 two 20 mm had been removed and four twin 20&nbsp;mm shipped. The type 279 radar was replaced by types 272, 281, 282 and 285. In a long refit from October 1943 to July 1944, C turret was replaced by a quadruple 2-pounder pom-pom and two twin 20&nbsp;mm were fitted. Radar 271 and 272 were removed and types 279b, 277 and 293 fitted.

''Hermione'' was also completed as a five-turret ship. She had the .5-inch MGs removed in October–November 1941 and received five 20&nbsp;mm.

{{HMS|Sirius|82|2}} was completed with five turrets and five 20&nbsp;mm. She had received two more 20&nbsp;mm by mid-1943. One of these was landed at [[Massawa]] at the end of 1943 and two 40&nbsp;mm Bofors Mk III were fitted.{{efn|in [[Italian East Africa]] captured during the [[East African campaign (World War II)|East African campaign]]}} She is listed as having only seven 20&nbsp;mm as light AA in April 1944. By April 1945 she had two Mk III 40&nbsp;mm fitted and had landed two 20&nbsp;mm.

{{HMS|Cleopatra|33|2}} was completed with two 2-pounder pom-poms in 1942 in lieu of the .5-inch machine guns but these were removed in the middle of the year and replaced by five 20&nbsp;mm. A sixth 20&nbsp;mm was added in mid-1943. During repairs between November 1943 and November 1944, Q turret was removed, as were two quadruple 2-pounder pom-poms and five 20&nbsp;mm. Three quadruple 40&nbsp;mm Bofors and six twin 20&nbsp;mm were fitted and there were four single 20 mm. In 1951 the American quadruple Bofors and Oerlikons were replaced by three twin MK 5 Bofors and eight single Mk 7.

{{HMS|Argonaut|61|2}} was completed with four 20&nbsp;mm in lieu of the .5-inch machine guns. She had Q turret removed during repairs in 1943/44, and lost the four 20&nbsp;mm. She received a quadruple 2-pounder pom-pom in lieu of the 5.25-inch and had five twin 20&nbsp;mm fitted. By April 1944 her light AA comprised three quadruple 2-pounder pom-poms, six twin power-operated 20&nbsp;mm and five singles. By the end of the war with [[Japan]] she had received five 40&nbsp;mm Bofors and three 40&nbsp;mm Bofors Mk III.

{{HMS|Scylla|98|2}} was completed with four twin 4.5-inch Mk III in UD MK III mountings because of a shortage of 5.25-inch mountings. The forward superstructure was considerably modified to accommodate these and also to increase crew spaces. Her light AA on completion was eight single 20&nbsp;mm. Six twin power-operated 20&nbsp;mm were added at the end of 1943.

{{HMS|Charybdis|88|2}} was also completed with four twin 4.5-inch and had a 4-inch Mk V forward of X mounting. Her light AA at completion was four 20&nbsp;mm and two single 2-pounder pom-poms. The 4-inch star shell gun and two of the single 2-pounder pom-poms were removed and replaced by two twin and two single 20&nbsp;mm, probably in 1943.