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==Ships in class== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |+ Construction data, ''Dido'' group |- ! scope="col" | Name ! scope="col" | [[Pennant number|Pennant]] ! scope="col" | Builder ! scope="col" | [[Laid down]] ! scope="col" | [[Ceremonial ship launching|Launched]] ! scope="col" | [[Ship commissioning|Commissioned]] ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Fate |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Dido|37|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 37 | rowspan=3 | [[Cammell Laird]], [[Birkenhead]] | 26 October 1937 | 18 July 1939 | 30 September 1940 | Broken up at [[Barrow-in-Furness]], 1957 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Argonaut|61|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 61 | 21 November 1939 | 6 September 1941 | 8 August 1942 | Broken up at [[Newport, Wales|Newport]], 1955 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Charybdis|88|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 88 | 9 November 1939 | 17 September 1940 | 3 December 1941 | Sunk at [[Battle of Sept-Γles]], 23 October 1943 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Phoebe|43|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 43 | [[Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company]], [[Govan]] | 2 September 1937 | 25 March 1939 | 27 September 1940 | Broken up at [[Blyth, Northumberland|Blyth]], 1956 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Hermione|74|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 74 | [[Alexander Stephen and Sons]], [[Glasgow]] | 6 October 1937 | 18 May 1939 | 25 March 1941 | Torpedoed by the {{GS|U-205}}, 16 June 1942 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Bonaventure|31|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 31 | rowspan=2 | [[Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company]], [[Greenock]] | 30 August 1937 | 19 April 1939 | 24 May 1940 | Torpedoed by the {{ship|Italian submarine|Ambra||6}}, 31 March 1941 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Scylla|98|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 98 | 19 April 1939 | 24 July 1940 | 12 June 1942 | Broken up at Barrow-in-Furness, 1950 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Naiad|93|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 93 | rowspan=2 | [[Hawthorn Leslie|R. W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company]], [[Hebburn]] | 26 August 1937 | 3 February 1939 | 24 July 1940 | Torpedoed by the {{GS|U-565}}, 11 March 1942 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Cleopatra|33|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 33 | 5 January 1939 | 27 March 1940 | 5 December 1941 | Broken up at Newport, 1958 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Sirius|82|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 82 | [[Portsmouth Dockyard]], [[Portsmouth]] | 6 April 1938 | 18 September 1940 | 6 May 1942 | Broken up at Blyth, 1956 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Euryalus|42|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 42 | [[Chatham Dockyard]] | 21 October 1937 | 6 June 1939 | 30 June 1941 | Broken up at Blyth, 1959 |} {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |+ Construction data, ''Bellona'' group |- ! scope="col" | Name ! scope="col" | Pennant ! scope="col" | Builder ! scope="col" | Laid down ! scope="col" | Launched ! scope="col" | Commissioned ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Fate |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Bellona|63|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 63 | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan | 30 November 1939 | 29 September 1942 | 29 October 1943 | Broken up at Barrow-in-Furness, 1959 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Royalist|89|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 89 | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock | 21 March 1940 | 30 May 1942 | 10 September 1943 | Broken up at [[Osaka]], 1968 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Diadem|84|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 84 | R. W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Hebburn | 15 December 1939 | 26 August 1942 | 6 January 1944 | Transferred to [[Pakistan]], 1956. Renamed ''Babur''. Scrap in 1985. |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Black Prince|81|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 81 | [[Harland and Wolff]], [[Belfast]] | 2 November 1939 | 27 August 1942 | 20 November 1943 | Broken up at Osaka, 1962 |- ! scope="row" | {{HMS|Spartan|95|2}} | style="text-align: center;" | 95 | [[Vickers-Armstrongs]], Barrow-in-Furness | 21 December 1939 | 27 August 1942 | 10 August 1943 | Sunk by aircraft, 29 January 1944 |}
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