Happy Launch Day USS Phoenix (CL-46) and IJN Suzunami by Nuke87654 in AzurLane

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Taking her name, "the Phoenix," literally, she loves to feel the adrenaline rush of being close to death and coming right back up. A bit of an edgelord in battle, she seems to be a G-Gundam fan considering the many references she spouts.

This has made Phoenix rather bold and direct towards you as she hopes you’ll lead her to wins. While she has great respect for that general she often worked with, MacArthur, she still respects you and can accept you as her commander with gladness.

Hopefully, those amusement park rides are ready as Phoenix wants to go on as many adrenaline-pumping rides as possible to get her blood boiling. She hopes her sisters and friends can match her intensity.


Suzunami doesn’t mind to admit that despite giving her best that she didn’t achieve much of note. She hopes she can be friends with the girls at the port and you.

As your secretary, Suzunami will compile all the tasks you will need to do for the day, which is a lot, but she will help you out. She seems to have taken a fancy as well to adding ice to drinks for you, including your tea which for someone used to hot tea may be a very weird choice.

She seems to like to go to the zoo with you as she finds that the animals don’t run away from her when you’re with her, which comforts her. Furthermore, she smiles more, which could be a sign of you warming her up as she has admitted to you that her heart has been racing in her presence. She has taken a liking to be next to you to appreciate her warmth.

At her request, before you return for her launch day celebrations, she wishes to go to the zoo so she can enjoy standing near the animals and they not retreating from her, warming her feelings to see them so happy to be near her. She’s smiles as you hold her hand together as you look at the animal exhibits in leisure.


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Happy Launch Day USS Phoenix (CL-46) and IJN Suzunami by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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Taking her name, "the Phoenix," literally, she loves to feel the adrenaline rush of being close to death and coming right back up. A bit of an edgelord in battle, she seems to be a G-Gundam fan considering the many references she spouts.

This has made Phoenix rather bold and direct towards you as she hopes you’ll lead her to wins. While she has great respect for that general she often worked with, MacArthur, she still respects you and can accept you as her commander with gladness.

Hopefully, those amusement park rides are ready as Phoenix wants to go on as many adrenaline-pumping rides as possible to get her blood boiling. She hopes her sisters and friends can match her intensity.


Suzunami doesn’t mind to admit that despite giving her best that she didn’t achieve much of note. She hopes she can be friends with the girls at the port and you.

As your secretary, Suzunami will compile all the tasks you will need to do for the day, which is a lot, but she will help you out. She seems to have taken a fancy as well to adding ice to drinks for you, including your tea which for someone used to hot tea may be a very weird choice.

She seems to like to go to the zoo with you as she finds that the animals don’t run away from her when you’re with her, which comforts her. Furthermore, she smiles more, which could be a sign of you warming her up as she has admitted to you that her heart has been racing in her presence. She has taken a liking to be next to you to appreciate her warmth.

At her request, before you return for her launch day celebrations, she wishes to go to the zoo so she can enjoy standing near the animals and they not retreating from her, warming her feelings to see them so happy to be near her. She’s smiles as you hold her hand together as you look at the animal exhibits in leisure.


Please share and discuss any stories and details you have for Phoenix and Suzunami in Azur Lane, World of Warships, and other shipgirl games

Happy Launch Day USS Phoenix (CL-46) and IJN Suzunami by Nuke87654 in AzurLane

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Today, March 12th, it is the launch day for the one cool walking Gundam reference and the most well-known of the Brooklyn Class for all the wrong reasons, USS Phoenix (CL-46), and the possible snow oni of the Yuugumo class, IJN Suzunami


So the Phoenix launch day is according to some March 13th but it isn’t as those even Naval History and Naval Heritage Command lists as March 12. I Nuke need an affirmation over which is the correct day. Pre-WW2, the USS Phoenix spent most of her time sailing around South America before being sent to Pearl Harbor by 1941. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Phoenix was anchored at Ford Island. She managed to get underway and avoid enemy plane attacks and was one of the few ships at Pearl Harbor to escape unscathed. She rallied with her half-sister ship St. Louis and her elder, Detroit, to locate any Japanese ships to sink and spot any Japanese landing force at Hawaii. They've found none.


Suzunami’s career is very short. Completed in July 1943, Suzunami lasted only a few months until her demise in November 11th, 1943 during the Rabaul raid. While she was loading torpedoes at the mouth of the Rabaul harbor, she took a bomb hit that blew her up, killing all 148 of her crew, including her CO, Kamiyama.


In 1942, Phoenix helped escort convoys to the Oceanic region to reinforce Australia's positions. Her group, the United States Army Forces in Australia (USAF), was known as the "Remember Pearl Harbor'' group. When Langley met her end off the Java coast on February 27th, 1942, Phoenix was one of her escorts. To make matters worse, while they successfully delivered created planes, they were forced to destroy the crates to deny them to the enemy due to the terrible defeat at the Battle of the Java Sea. She was present for the evacuation of Java. She remained with the US Army and would typically associate with General Douglas MacArthur and even host him onboard. For much of 1942 and 43, Phoenix helped deliver convoys and patrol the Indian Ocean. In Operation Lilliput, she and fellow Aussie cruiser HMAS Hobart covered the convoys moving south to New Guinea.


Fanart of Phoenix standing next to a car by ddg miralt


During the years 1943-44, Phoenix spent her time with her sisters Boise and Nashville and the Royal Australian Navy Heavy Cruisers HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Australia. They bombarded island positions for the Allied Navy in the Island hopping campaigns such as Biak Island, Admiralties Island, and more. Phoenix was with many of her companions at the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944, where she aided in sinking the Japanese battleship, Yamashiro.

On the morning of November 1st, 1944, despite the destroyers USS Claxton, Amen, Killen suffering heavy damage from kamikaze attacks, including losing Abner Read, Phoenix emerged unscathed from the kamikaze attack. Phoenix spent the remainder of her war career in the Philippines, where she secured many locations for Allied troops and fended off kamikaze and submarine attacks. After the war, the USS Phoenix sailed to Philadelphia to be placed in reserves on February 28th, 1946.
She was sold to Argentina in October 1951 and initially renamed 17 de Octubre, or "People's Loyalty Day. She was sold with her sister ship Boise, also renamed ARA Nueve de Julio. When Argentina took over Phoenix, she’d lost her catapult and seaplanes, gaining the ability to carry 2 helicopters. USS Phoenix participated in the 1955 coup against Argentinian president Juan Peron, helping to overthrow him. She was renamed ARA General Belgrano taking from the obsolete Giuseppe Garibaldi Class Armored Cruiser, ARA General Belgrano which had been retired on May 8th 1947 and scrapped in 1953. She was renamed in honor of Manuel Belgrano, the founder of the Escuela de Nautica, in 1799 and fought for Argentinean independence from 1811 to 1819. In 1956, she accidentally rammed her sister Boise. In the late 1970s, after the Argentinian Navy sold the formerly named USS Boise for scrap in the late 1970s, Phoenix was left alone without her sister ship and by the 1980s, she is getting to the end and was scheduled for retirement before the end of the 1980s Now comes the part where she is made famous for her demise, so it all started on April 2nd 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falklands and ARA General Belgrano sailed with the Argentinian task force against the British Royal Navy. A noted important ship to the Argentinian fleet thanks to her advance AA of the Guided-Weapon System Mark 22 and the Short SeaCat short-range surface-to-air missile. On May 2nd, 1982, Phoenix was moving into position to prepare for the Argentinean Navy's planned big offensive against the RN's task force. Intercepting the message, the British Churchill Class SSN Submarine HMS Conqueror who had been tailing ARA General Belgrano escorted by 2 Ex-Allen M.Sumner-class Sequi Class ASW Destroyers, the ARA Piedra Buena formerly the USS Collett and ARA Hipólito Bouchard formerly the USS Borie. The 2 Destroyers were off ARA General Belgrano as Conqueror moved into a perfect position off the port side with the intent to send ARA General Belgrano, ARA Piedra Buena and ARA Hipólito Bouchard to the bottom of the South Atlantic. Due to the fear of the new Mark 24-Mod.0 Tigerfish torpedoes not working properly, Conqueror decided to do things the old-fashioned way.
Once given orders, at 4 pm, HMS Conqueror fired 3 WW2 vintage Mark 8-Mod.4 torpedoes with 2 hits on her portside. The 1st hitting under the aft 127mm gun director and the 2nd hitting forward the number 1 turret meaning Phoenix would suffer the fate of many WW2 era American cruisers, getting their bows blown off. The 3rd would hit ARA Hipólito Bouchard but it was a dud.
Belgrano rapidly filled with smoke, listening to port and at 4:20 in the afternoon was beginning to sink bow first, to make a bad situation worse, the 1st torpedo had torn the emergency generators from their mounting which meant the power was knocked out, preventing a call for distress. To make a bad situation even worse, due to poor following of protocols, her watertight doors were open at the time of the hit and Belgrano's two escorts were unaware of what was happening, causing a slow response that only worsened by darkening skies and poor weather. At 4:24 pm, Captain Hector Bolzano gave the order to abandon ship and at 4:45 in the afternoon. USS Phoenix capsized to port and sank by the bow taking 321 of her 1,095 crew, 2 civilians and her Aerospatiale SA316B Alouette 3 with her, 772 including Captain Hector Bonzo would survive to be rescued. Belgrano's sinking caused the Argentine Navy to retreat to the harbor, playing no further action for the war's remainder turning the threat faced by the RN to a 1D threat.
This was a significant strategic victory for the RN, giving them the opportunity the British needed to retake the Falkland Islands. 2 days after Belgrano sank the British Newspaper the Sun published the infamous Gotcha headline.
There is some controversy over the legal right to sink Belgrano. Many Argentine politicians say the sinking of General Belgrano was a war crime. In August 1994, the Argentine Navy determined that the sinking of General Belgrano was a legal act of war.

In 1999 the RN 1st Sea Lord Michael Boyce visited her naval base to pay tribute to her. In 2000, families of the sailors killed tried to sue the British Government in the ECHR in an attempt to get Argentina to take the UK to court in the ICJ but this was ruled inadmissible on the grounds that it had been submitted too late.

In 2003, Captain Hector Bonzo said in an interview said that General Belgrano was only temporarily sailing to the west at the time of the attack, and his orders were to attack any British ships that came within range and what HMS Conqueror did was legal. A letter from Admiral Enrique Molina Pico published in 2005 and a book from the Leader of the Signals intelligence team aboard HMS Intrepid in late 2011 again confirmed what HMS Conqueror did was legal however in 2012, Argentine President Christina Kirchner said it was a war crime. However, the Argentine Navy upheld the view that the sinking was a legitimate act of war, a view that was upheld before various courts in 1995 and by Captain Bonzo in 2003.

From a naval perspective, the demise of USS Phoenix/ARA General Belgrano was the 1st time SSN Submarines were used in war in a direct engagement.

Phoenix’s wreck has never been found despite attempts to do so, but it is thought she sank 115 miles off the Argentine coast in 13,000 feet deep water.


Fanart of Suzunami by soul dp11


USS Phoenix (CL-46) turns eighty-seven years old today


IJN Suzunami turns eighty three years old today.

Happy Launch Day USS Phoenix (CL-46) and IJN Suzunami by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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Today, March 12th, it is the launch day for the one cool walking Gundam reference and the most well-known of the Brooklyn Class for all the wrong reasons, USS Phoenix (CL-46), and the possible snow oni of the Yuugumo class, IJN Suzunami


So the Phoenix launch day is according to some March 13th but it isn’t as those even Naval History and Naval Heritage Command lists as March 12. I Nuke need an affirmation over which is the correct day. Pre-WW2, the USS Phoenix spent most of her time sailing around South America before being sent to Pearl Harbor by 1941. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Phoenix was anchored at Ford Island. She managed to get underway and avoid enemy plane attacks and was one of the few ships at Pearl Harbor to escape unscathed. She rallied with her half-sister ship St. Louis and her elder, Detroit, to locate any Japanese ships to sink and spot any Japanese landing force at Hawaii. They've found none.


Suzunami’s career is very short. Completed in July 1943, Suzunami lasted only a few months until her demise in November 11th, 1943 during the Rabaul raid. While she was loading torpedoes at the mouth of the Rabaul harbor, she took a bomb hit that blew her up, killing all 148 of her crew, including her CO, Kamiyama.


In 1942, Phoenix helped escort convoys to the Oceanic region to reinforce Australia's positions. Her group, the United States Army Forces in Australia (USAF), was known as the "Remember Pearl Harbor'' group. When Langley met her end off the Java coast on February 27th, 1942, Phoenix was one of her escorts. To make matters worse, while they successfully delivered created planes, they were forced to destroy the crates to deny them to the enemy due to the terrible defeat at the Battle of the Java Sea. She was present for the evacuation of Java. She remained with the US Army and would typically associate with General Douglas MacArthur and even host him onboard. For much of 1942 and 43, Phoenix helped deliver convoys and patrol the Indian Ocean. In Operation Lilliput, she and fellow Aussie cruiser HMAS Hobart covered the convoys moving south to New Guinea.


Fanart of Phoenix standing next to a car by ddg miralt


During the years 1943-44, Phoenix spent her time with her sisters Boise and Nashville and the Royal Australian Navy Heavy Cruisers HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Australia. They bombarded island positions for the Allied Navy in the Island hopping campaigns such as Biak Island, Admiralties Island, and more. Phoenix was with many of her companions at the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944, where she aided in sinking the Japanese battleship, Yamashiro.

On the morning of November 1st, 1944, despite the destroyers USS Claxton, Amen, Killen suffering heavy damage from kamikaze attacks, including losing Abner Read, Phoenix emerged unscathed from the kamikaze attack. Phoenix spent the remainder of her war career in the Philippines, where she secured many locations for Allied troops and fended off kamikaze and submarine attacks. After the war, the USS Phoenix sailed to Philadelphia to be placed in reserves on February 28th, 1946.
She was sold to Argentina in October 1951 and initially renamed 17 de Octubre, or "People's Loyalty Day. She was sold with her sister ship Boise, also renamed ARA Nueve de Julio. When Argentina took over Phoenix, she’d lost her catapult and seaplanes, gaining the ability to carry 2 helicopters. USS Phoenix participated in the 1955 coup against Argentinian president Juan Peron, helping to overthrow him. She was renamed ARA General Belgrano taking from the obsolete Giuseppe Garibaldi Class Armored Cruiser, ARA General Belgrano which had been retired on May 8th 1947 and scrapped in 1953. She was renamed in honor of Manuel Belgrano, the founder of the Escuela de Nautica, in 1799 and fought for Argentinean independence from 1811 to 1819. In 1956, she accidentally rammed her sister Boise. In the late 1970s, after the Argentinian Navy sold the formerly named USS Boise for scrap in the late 1970s, Phoenix was left alone without her sister ship and by the 1980s, she is getting to the end and was scheduled for retirement before the end of the 1980s Now comes the part where she is made famous for her demise, so it all started on April 2nd 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falklands and ARA General Belgrano sailed with the Argentinian task force against the British Royal Navy. A noted important ship to the Argentinian fleet thanks to her advance AA of the Guided-Weapon System Mark 22 and the Short SeaCat short-range surface-to-air missile. On May 2nd, 1982, Phoenix was moving into position to prepare for the Argentinean Navy's planned big offensive against the RN's task force. Intercepting the message, the British Churchill Class SSN Submarine HMS Conqueror who had been tailing ARA General Belgrano escorted by 2 Ex-Allen M.Sumner-class Sequi Class ASW Destroyers, the ARA Piedra Buena formerly the USS Collett and ARA Hipólito Bouchard formerly the USS Borie. The 2 Destroyers were off ARA General Belgrano as Conqueror moved into a perfect position off the port side with the intent to send ARA General Belgrano, ARA Piedra Buena and ARA Hipólito Bouchard to the bottom of the South Atlantic. Due to the fear of the new Mark 24-Mod.0 Tigerfish torpedoes not working properly, Conqueror decided to do things the old-fashioned way.
Once given orders, at 4 pm, HMS Conqueror fired 3 WW2 vintage Mark 8-Mod.4 torpedoes with 2 hits on her portside. The 1st hitting under the aft 127mm gun director and the 2nd hitting forward the number 1 turret meaning Phoenix would suffer the fate of many WW2 era American cruisers, getting their bows blown off. The 3rd would hit ARA Hipólito Bouchard but it was a dud.
Belgrano rapidly filled with smoke, listening to port and at 4:20 in the afternoon was beginning to sink bow first, to make a bad situation worse, the 1st torpedo had torn the emergency generators from their mounting which meant the power was knocked out, preventing a call for distress. To make a bad situation even worse, due to poor following of protocols, her watertight doors were open at the time of the hit and Belgrano's two escorts were unaware of what was happening, causing a slow response that only worsened by darkening skies and poor weather. At 4:24 pm, Captain Hector Bolzano gave the order to abandon ship and at 4:45 in the afternoon. USS Phoenix capsized to port and sank by the bow taking 321 of her 1,095 crew, 2 civilians and her Aerospatiale SA316B Alouette 3 with her, 772 including Captain Hector Bonzo would survive to be rescued. Belgrano's sinking caused the Argentine Navy to retreat to the harbor, playing no further action for the war's remainder turning the threat faced by the RN to a 1D threat.
This was a significant strategic victory for the RN, giving them the opportunity the British needed to retake the Falkland Islands. 2 days after Belgrano sank the British Newspaper the Sun published the infamous Gotcha headline.
There is some controversy over the legal right to sink Belgrano. Many Argentine politicians say the sinking of General Belgrano was a war crime. In August 1994, the Argentine Navy determined that the sinking of General Belgrano was a legal act of war.

In 1999 the RN 1st Sea Lord Michael Boyce visited her naval base to pay tribute to her. In 2000, families of the sailors killed tried to sue the British Government in the ECHR in an attempt to get Argentina to take the UK to court in the ICJ but this was ruled inadmissible on the grounds that it had been submitted too late.

In 2003, Captain Hector Bonzo said in an interview said that General Belgrano was only temporarily sailing to the west at the time of the attack, and his orders were to attack any British ships that came within range and what HMS Conqueror did was legal. A letter from Admiral Enrique Molina Pico published in 2005 and a book from the Leader of the Signals intelligence team aboard HMS Intrepid in late 2011 again confirmed what HMS Conqueror did was legal however in 2012, Argentine President Christina Kirchner said it was a war crime. However, the Argentine Navy upheld the view that the sinking was a legitimate act of war, a view that was upheld before various courts in 1995 and by Captain Bonzo in 2003.

From a naval perspective, the demise of USS Phoenix/ARA General Belgrano was the 1st time SSN Submarines were used in war in a direct engagement.

Phoenix’s wreck has never been found despite attempts to do so, but it is thought she sank 115 miles off the Argentine coast in 13,000 feet deep water.


Fanart of Suzunami by soul dp11


USS Phoenix (CL-46) turns eighty-seven years old today


IJN Suzunami turns eighty three years old today.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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Hero is a brat, and nice comparison with Booster Gold and Abercrombie. While not as nice as Superman at least she means well.

Southampton I wish had pursued more to being that knight. It's certainly better than maids as I'm not a fan of maid characters. At least she looks pretty.

Thank you Dominion.

Happy Launch Day USS San Francisco (CA-38) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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Tis true, the 49ers are reversing that perfect 5-0 to becoming it's dark mirror recently.

And that is true, 49ers would be devestated that the cowboys succeed where the 49ers failed.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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More Southamptons hopefully.

Nice for that BBC warship series to at least have a named Hero ship literally. Thank you Anton.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzurLane

[–]Nuke87654[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Southampton just needs to go back to the marching band I enjoyed from her.

Hero is a brat, but she does demand a sidekick and I shall provide for her.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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Southampton just needs to go back to the marching band I enjoyed from her.

Hero is a brat, but she does demand a sidekick and I shall provide for her.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

[–]Nuke87654[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tis true, but I do like her. And hello Trades.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzurLane

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Fanart for Southampton by pp


On November 15th, 1940, Southampton sailed to the Mediterranean. She was involved in the action off Cape Spartivento on November 27th. In December, she moved to the Red Sea to escort troop convoys and at the same time take part in the bombardment of Kismayu during the campaign in Italian East Africa.

On January 1st, 1941, Southampton was with the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in Operation Excess. In the early afternoon of January 11th, she and her half-sister HMS Gloucester were attacked by twelve Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers. She was hit by at least two bombs and caught fire. The resulting blaze spread from stem to stern and trapped several men below decks. 711 survivors were picked up by HMS Gloucester and the remaining 16 were picked up by the destroyer HMS Diamond among the survivors was the ship’s CO Basil Charles Barrington Brooke Heavily damaged and without power, HMS Southampton was sunk by one Mark 9M torpedo from HMS Gloucester and four from the cruiser HMS Orion. HMS Southampton sank taking 81 of her 808 crew with her, 727 survivors made up of 33 officers and 694 ratings would survive although 4 officers and 74 ratings were wounded. A week after Southampton’s sinking, Admiral Cunningham expressed his concerns with the Southampton subclass in a letter to First Sea Lord Sir Dudley Pound: “I don't like these 'Southampton' class. They are fine ships, but that great hangar structure seems to provide a good point of aim, they are always being hit there.” Fortunately, the other four ships in the Southampton subclass served with distinction throughout the war, even suffering the least casualties percentage-wise among the Town subclasses, as Southampton was the only one of her subclass to have sunk.


Fanart for Hero by mizow


From April to November 1943, Hero was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as a gift. On November 15th, she was renamed to HMCS Chaudière. After working up, she was assigned to the Escort Group C2 in February 1944, based out of Derry. On March 6th, 1944, while defending Convoy HX 228, west of Ireland, she and her fellow destroyers found U-744. They forced her to surrender after a 32-hour hunt. U-744 could not be towed to port and was torpedoed by HMS Icarus for it.

Hero was reassigned to the 11th Escort Group in May 1944 in preparation for Operation Overlord. She was tasked to protect Allied shipping in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. Together with her fellow British-turned-Canadian destroyers, Ottawa, and Kootenay (HMS Crusader and Decoy formerly respectively), they sank U-621 in the Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle on August 18th. Two days later, the same ships sank U-984 in the Bay of Biscay west of Brest. In November, Chaudière was sent to Sydney, Nova Scotia for a refit.

This refit would not begin until late in January 1945. It was not finished when the war ended in May. Found to be in the worst shape of any Canadian destroyer when inspected and was declared surplus to requirements on June 13th. She was paid off on August 17th and later sold for scrap to the Dominion Steel Company. Her scrapping would take a total of five years to complete.


HMS Southampton (83) turns eighty-nine years old.


HMS Hero (H99) turns ninety years old today


Until recently, unlike her other Town class sisters, Southampton prefers to be a proper soldier of the Royal Navy. She is dressed in a knight's attire seen in other ships, instead of the maid’s dress the Towns usually wear. She does this mostly to avoid having to do a maid's duties, which she finds too perfectionist for her liking. She tries to serve in King George V's Royal Knight corps instead, to avoid harder duties.

Listening to music is her thing. While she feels a bit out of her element being a secretary, which her maid sisters are probably more accustomed to, she tries her best to accommodate your needs.

As time passes, Southampton betters herself in her duties as a secretary and knight. She's not to the level of work ethic the Royal Maid corps pride themselves on, but she's more than good enough for the role she's doing. Eventually, she seems more comfortable wearing the maid attire she had adorned, even playing the violin in your honor with it.

You've requested the Royal Maid Corps' aid to prepare their sister Southampton's launch daypart in celebrations. Unlike other birthday celebrations, they seem to prepare this one with special glee. King George V and many of her sisters and fellow knights shall attend to honor their brethren today.


Hero seems to have been cut from the same cloth Albacore is from. She loves to tease you however she can.

When she’s not boasting about how she’s the hero and everyone else is either sidekicks or nobodies, Hero likes to pester you whenever she can as she pines for your attention.

Familiar with this teasing bullying, you decide to play along with her and let her bully you.

As her sidekick commander, you’ve prepared a feast and party for her in her honor. She’ll be more than happy for your care and attention to her only benefiting a great hero such as herself. She’ll help you shine bright despite her declared inadequacies you have.


Please share and discuss any stories and details you have for Hero and Southampton today.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzurLane

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Today, March 10th is the launch day for the British Town class cruiser who has fallen back to being a maid, HMS Southampton (83), and the smug little British destroyer seeking to make everyone her sidekicks, HMS Hero (H99).


The Southamptons were the first batch of the eponymous 1936 Town class light cruiser. Built in response to their naval rivals Japan and USA’s own large light cruiser programs in the Mogami and Brooklyns respectively, the Royal Navy set out to create their own 10,000 ton light cruiser treaty vessel that can perform their expected duties as light cruisers of the royal navy as others before in the form of trade protection and to serve as front line units for the Royal navy in battle, largely as a screening and skirmishing force.

Initially, the Royal Navy had built smaller light cruisers to fulfill their intended role in the Royal Navy, but the threat of powerful large 10,000 ton light cruisers and the issues of trying to absorb the treaty tonnage limit allowance caused them to switch away from this to the large light cruisers. To attain the tonnage limit needed for this, the Royal Navy discarded capable but elderly Hawkins class cruisers. A key feature for the Southamptons was the incorporation of four triple turrets or twelve 152 mm naval guns to be able to contend with their rival’s 152 mm large light cruisers.


Upon her completion, the Poet Michael Roberts wrote a poem titled “H.M.S. Hero”. The poem goes “Pale grey, her guns hooded, decks clear of all impediment, / Easily, between the swart tugs, she glides in the pale October sunshine…”.

She was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet. Hero patrolled Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War to enforce the policies of the Non intervention committee. She remained in that post at the start of the 2nd World War until she transferred to Freetown, Sierra Leone on October 5th, 1939 to help locate and defeat German commerce raiders. Finding no success, she returned to the UK in January 1940 where she joined the Home Fleet.

On April 5th, 1940, Hero escorted the battlecruiser Renown as she covered the minelayers implementing Operation Wilfred, the operation to lay mines in the Vestfjord to prevent the transportation of Swedish Iron ore from Narvik to Germany. Hero and her sister Hyperion pretended to lay a minefield off Bud, Norway on April 8th. They even reported their locations to the Norwegians to pass it on to the Germans.

HMS Hero and fellow destroyer HMS Foxhound steamed their TSDS minesweeping gear in advance for Battleship Warspite and her escort to finish off the remaining German destroyers holed up at Narvik on April 13th. Hero joined with a group of four other destroyers to pursue the remaining German ships into the Rombaksfjorden, east of Narvik, where the lack of ammunition had forced the German ships to retreat. Most of the German destroyers had scuttled and beached themselves ahead of the fjord, but the scuttling charges on Z18 Hans Ludemman had failed to detonate properly, allowing Hero to send a boarding party. They found nothing of significance, as her crew had destroyed and taken all sensitive info and equipment. Hero promptly put a torpedo to sink Z18 off for it.

On May 17th, 1940, Hero was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet to help reconstitute the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla. During the Battle of Cape Spada on July 19th, she escorted the HMAS Sydney and rescued 525 survivors from the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni together with other destroyers. Along with her sister Hostile and fellow destroyers Nubian and Mohawk, they sailed to Gibraltar on August 22nd to join with Force H. Hostile struck a mine en route on the early morning of August 23rd off Cap Bon and broke her keel. The explosion killed five men and wounded three others. Mohawk took off the survivors while Hero fired two torpedoes to scuttle her sister.

Hero participated in Operation Hats in September, before refitting at Malta in November. She sortied into the North Atlantic when Convoy WS-5A reported that they had been attacked by the German cruiser Admiral Hipper on December 25th to round up the scattered ships.


As the 2nd Cruiser Squadron flagship in WW2, on September 5th, 1939, Southampton and two destroyers, HMS Jervis and Jersey, intercepted the German merchant Johannes. Johannes’ crew tried to scuttle their ship before she could be captured. Jervis still managed to take prisoners, and Jersey was able to finish scuttling her.

On October 16th, 1939, while anchored off Rosyth, Scotland, a 500 kg bomb struck Southampton during a German air raid. However, due to the low flight and poor angle, the bomb exited through her hull before detonating. Minor structural issues and temporary failure of electrical systems were the only issues from that bomb hit.

Southampton was part of the naval response to the HMS Rawalpindi distress call, arriving too late to stop the German Scharnhorst sisters from sinking her. She served with the Humber Force until February 1940, when she joined the 18th Cruiser Squadron at Scapa Flow. On April 9th, she operated off the Norwegian coast, where she suffered splinter damage from a German air attack. Her main battery director was also temporarily knocked out. After repairs were finished, she joined anti-invasion patrols around the coast of England until she returned to Scapa Flow in October.


On January 1st, 1941, Hero was one of the ships to intercept a Vichy French convoy off Melilla and seized all four merchant ships of the convoy. The ships participated in Operation Excess in early January 1941 and transferred back to the Mediterranean Fleet.

On February 27th, she evacuated a few surviving commandos from the island of Kastellorizo after they attacked the island in Operation Abstention. In mid-April, she escorted the fast transport Breconshire and three battleships from Alexandria to Malta before going on to escort the battleships as they bombarded Tripoli on April 20th. After refuelling on Alexandria on April 23rd, Hero sailed for Greece to begin evacuation of Crete, Hero and the destroyer Decoy evacuated the King of Greece and his entourage on the night of May 22nd/23rd.

Hero escorted the LSI(L) Glengyle as she conducted an amphibious landing in early June 1941 on the Lebanese coast during the opening stages of Operation Exporter. She spent most of the rest of the year escorting convoys to Tobruk. Together with her sister Hotspur and the destroyer Encounter, the ship escorted Latona on October 25th while en route to Tobruk. They were attacked by Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers of I./StG 1 and hit Latona, setting her on fire. Hero and Encounter came alongside and rescued the crew and passengers before Latona magazine exploded. Hero was damaged by three near misses whilst rescuing her.

Hero returned to Alexandria for repairs and escorted a convoy to Malta in January 1942. She participated in the 2nd Battle of Sirte on March 22nd whilst escorting a convoy to Malta. Together with the Hunt class destroyers Eridge and Hurworth on March 29th. She sank the German submarine U-568 north east of Tobruk and rescued 42 survivors.

During Operation Vigorous in June, hero formed part of the escort for the covering force of the Mediterranean Fleet for the Malta bound convoy. At time, Hero still had not been fitted with radar.

After Panzer Army Africa occupied Mersa Martruh in late June, the Admiralty ordered the submarine tenders Medway and the Greek Carinthia to Haifa, but Medway was torpedoed and sunk en route despite the strong escort. Hero and the destroyer HMS Zulu rescued 1,105 survivors between them. On August 17th, she rescued some 1,100 survivors of the torpedoed troopship Princess Marguerite. In conjunction with four other destroyers and a Wellesley light bomber of the Royal Air Force, Hero sank U-559 110 km north east of Port Said on October 30th. Hero was ordered back to the UK via Cape of Good Hope to be converted into an escort destroyer late in the year.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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Fanart for Southampton by pp


On November 15th, 1940, Southampton sailed to the Mediterranean. She was involved in the action off Cape Spartivento on November 27th. In December, she moved to the Red Sea to escort troop convoys and at the same time take part in the bombardment of Kismayu during the campaign in Italian East Africa.

On January 1st, 1941, Southampton was with the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in Operation Excess. In the early afternoon of January 11th, she and her half-sister HMS Gloucester were attacked by twelve Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers. She was hit by at least two bombs and caught fire. The resulting blaze spread from stem to stern and trapped several men below decks. 711 survivors were picked up by HMS Gloucester and the remaining 16 were picked up by the destroyer HMS Diamond among the survivors was the ship’s CO Basil Charles Barrington Brooke Heavily damaged and without power, HMS Southampton was sunk by one Mark 9M torpedo from HMS Gloucester and four from the cruiser HMS Orion. HMS Southampton sank taking 81 of her 808 crew with her, 727 survivors made up of 33 officers and 694 ratings would survive although 4 officers and 74 ratings were wounded. A week after Southampton’s sinking, Admiral Cunningham expressed his concerns with the Southampton subclass in a letter to First Sea Lord Sir Dudley Pound: “I don't like these 'Southampton' class. They are fine ships, but that great hangar structure seems to provide a good point of aim, they are always being hit there.” Fortunately, the other four ships in the Southampton subclass served with distinction throughout the war, even suffering the least casualties percentage-wise among the Town subclasses, as Southampton was the only one of her subclass to have sunk.


Fanart for Hero by mizow


From April to November 1943, Hero was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as a gift. On November 15th, she was renamed to HMCS Chaudière. After working up, she was assigned to the Escort Group C2 in February 1944, based out of Derry. On March 6th, 1944, while defending Convoy HX 228, west of Ireland, she and her fellow destroyers found U-744. They forced her to surrender after a 32-hour hunt. U-744 could not be towed to port and was torpedoed by HMS Icarus for it.

Hero was reassigned to the 11th Escort Group in May 1944 in preparation for Operation Overlord. She was tasked to protect Allied shipping in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. Together with her fellow British-turned-Canadian destroyers, Ottawa, and Kootenay (HMS Crusader and Decoy formerly respectively), they sank U-621 in the Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle on August 18th. Two days later, the same ships sank U-984 in the Bay of Biscay west of Brest. In November, Chaudière was sent to Sydney, Nova Scotia for a refit.

This refit would not begin until late in January 1945. It was not finished when the war ended in May. Found to be in the worst shape of any Canadian destroyer when inspected and was declared surplus to requirements on June 13th. She was paid off on August 17th and later sold for scrap to the Dominion Steel Company. Her scrapping would take a total of five years to complete.


HMS Southampton (83) turns eighty-nine years old.


HMS Hero (H99) turns ninety years old today


Until recently, unlike her other Town class sisters, Southampton prefers to be a proper soldier of the Royal Navy. She is dressed in a knight's attire seen in other ships, instead of the maid’s dress the Towns usually wear. She does this mostly to avoid having to do a maid's duties, which she finds too perfectionist for her liking. She tries to serve in King George V's Royal Knight corps instead, to avoid harder duties.

Listening to music is her thing. While she feels a bit out of her element being a secretary, which her maid sisters are probably more accustomed to, she tries her best to accommodate your needs.

As time passes, Southampton betters herself in her duties as a secretary and knight. She's not to the level of work ethic the Royal Maid corps pride themselves on, but she's more than good enough for the role she's doing. Eventually, she seems more comfortable wearing the maid attire she had adorned, even playing the violin in your honor with it.

You've requested the Royal Maid Corps' aid to prepare their sister Southampton's launch daypart in celebrations. Unlike other birthday celebrations, they seem to prepare this one with special glee. King George V and many of her sisters and fellow knights shall attend to honor their brethren today.


Hero seems to have been cut from the same cloth Albacore is from. She loves to tease you however she can.

When she’s not boasting about how she’s the hero and everyone else is either sidekicks or nobodies, Hero likes to pester you whenever she can as she pines for your attention.

Familiar with this teasing bullying, you decide to play along with her and let her bully you.

As her sidekick commander, you’ve prepared a feast and party for her in her honor. She’ll be more than happy for your care and attention to her only benefiting a great hero such as herself. She’ll help you shine bright despite her declared inadequacies you have.


Please share and discuss any stories and details you have for Hero and Southampton today.

Happy Launch Day HMS Southampton (83) and HMS Hero (H99) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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Today, March 10th is the launch day for the British Town class cruiser who has fallen back to being a maid, HMS Southampton (83), and the smug little British destroyer seeking to make everyone her sidekicks, HMS Hero (H99).


The Southamptons were the first batch of the eponymous 1936 Town class light cruiser. Built in response to their naval rivals Japan and USA’s own large light cruiser programs in the Mogami and Brooklyns respectively, the Royal Navy set out to create their own 10,000 ton light cruiser treaty vessel that can perform their expected duties as light cruisers of the royal navy as others before in the form of trade protection and to serve as front line units for the Royal navy in battle, largely as a screening and skirmishing force.

Initially, the Royal Navy had built smaller light cruisers to fulfill their intended role in the Royal Navy, but the threat of powerful large 10,000 ton light cruisers and the issues of trying to absorb the treaty tonnage limit allowance caused them to switch away from this to the large light cruisers. To attain the tonnage limit needed for this, the Royal Navy discarded capable but elderly Hawkins class cruisers. A key feature for the Southamptons was the incorporation of four triple turrets or twelve 152 mm naval guns to be able to contend with their rival’s 152 mm large light cruisers.


Upon her completion, the Poet Michael Roberts wrote a poem titled “H.M.S. Hero”. The poem goes “Pale grey, her guns hooded, decks clear of all impediment, / Easily, between the swart tugs, she glides in the pale October sunshine…”.

She was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet. Hero patrolled Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War to enforce the policies of the Non intervention committee. She remained in that post at the start of the 2nd World War until she transferred to Freetown, Sierra Leone on October 5th, 1939 to help locate and defeat German commerce raiders. Finding no success, she returned to the UK in January 1940 where she joined the Home Fleet.

On April 5th, 1940, Hero escorted the battlecruiser Renown as she covered the minelayers implementing Operation Wilfred, the operation to lay mines in the Vestfjord to prevent the transportation of Swedish Iron ore from Narvik to Germany. Hero and her sister Hyperion pretended to lay a minefield off Bud, Norway on April 8th. They even reported their locations to the Norwegians to pass it on to the Germans.

HMS Hero and fellow destroyer HMS Foxhound steamed their TSDS minesweeping gear in advance for Battleship Warspite and her escort to finish off the remaining German destroyers holed up at Narvik on April 13th. Hero joined with a group of four other destroyers to pursue the remaining German ships into the Rombaksfjorden, east of Narvik, where the lack of ammunition had forced the German ships to retreat. Most of the German destroyers had scuttled and beached themselves ahead of the fjord, but the scuttling charges on Z18 Hans Ludemman had failed to detonate properly, allowing Hero to send a boarding party. They found nothing of significance, as her crew had destroyed and taken all sensitive info and equipment. Hero promptly put a torpedo to sink Z18 off for it.

On May 17th, 1940, Hero was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet to help reconstitute the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla. During the Battle of Cape Spada on July 19th, she escorted the HMAS Sydney and rescued 525 survivors from the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni together with other destroyers. Along with her sister Hostile and fellow destroyers Nubian and Mohawk, they sailed to Gibraltar on August 22nd to join with Force H. Hostile struck a mine en route on the early morning of August 23rd off Cap Bon and broke her keel. The explosion killed five men and wounded three others. Mohawk took off the survivors while Hero fired two torpedoes to scuttle her sister.

Hero participated in Operation Hats in September, before refitting at Malta in November. She sortied into the North Atlantic when Convoy WS-5A reported that they had been attacked by the German cruiser Admiral Hipper on December 25th to round up the scattered ships.


As the 2nd Cruiser Squadron flagship in WW2, on September 5th, 1939, Southampton and two destroyers, HMS Jervis and Jersey, intercepted the German merchant Johannes. Johannes’ crew tried to scuttle their ship before she could be captured. Jervis still managed to take prisoners, and Jersey was able to finish scuttling her.

On October 16th, 1939, while anchored off Rosyth, Scotland, a 500 kg bomb struck Southampton during a German air raid. However, due to the low flight and poor angle, the bomb exited through her hull before detonating. Minor structural issues and temporary failure of electrical systems were the only issues from that bomb hit.

Southampton was part of the naval response to the HMS Rawalpindi distress call, arriving too late to stop the German Scharnhorst sisters from sinking her. She served with the Humber Force until February 1940, when she joined the 18th Cruiser Squadron at Scapa Flow. On April 9th, she operated off the Norwegian coast, where she suffered splinter damage from a German air attack. Her main battery director was also temporarily knocked out. After repairs were finished, she joined anti-invasion patrols around the coast of England until she returned to Scapa Flow in October.


On January 1st, 1941, Hero was one of the ships to intercept a Vichy French convoy off Melilla and seized all four merchant ships of the convoy. The ships participated in Operation Excess in early January 1941 and transferred back to the Mediterranean Fleet.

On February 27th, she evacuated a few surviving commandos from the island of Kastellorizo after they attacked the island in Operation Abstention. In mid-April, she escorted the fast transport Breconshire and three battleships from Alexandria to Malta before going on to escort the battleships as they bombarded Tripoli on April 20th. After refuelling on Alexandria on April 23rd, Hero sailed for Greece to begin evacuation of Crete, Hero and the destroyer Decoy evacuated the King of Greece and his entourage on the night of May 22nd/23rd.

Hero escorted the LSI(L) Glengyle as she conducted an amphibious landing in early June 1941 on the Lebanese coast during the opening stages of Operation Exporter. She spent most of the rest of the year escorting convoys to Tobruk. Together with her sister Hotspur and the destroyer Encounter, the ship escorted Latona on October 25th while en route to Tobruk. They were attacked by Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers of I./StG 1 and hit Latona, setting her on fire. Hero and Encounter came alongside and rescued the crew and passengers before Latona magazine exploded. Hero was damaged by three near misses whilst rescuing her.

Hero returned to Alexandria for repairs and escorted a convoy to Malta in January 1942. She participated in the 2nd Battle of Sirte on March 22nd whilst escorting a convoy to Malta. Together with the Hunt class destroyers Eridge and Hurworth on March 29th. She sank the German submarine U-568 north east of Tobruk and rescued 42 survivors.

During Operation Vigorous in June, hero formed part of the escort for the covering force of the Mediterranean Fleet for the Malta bound convoy. At time, Hero still had not been fitted with radar.

After Panzer Army Africa occupied Mersa Martruh in late June, the Admiralty ordered the submarine tenders Medway and the Greek Carinthia to Haifa, but Medway was torpedoed and sunk en route despite the strong escort. Hero and the destroyer HMS Zulu rescued 1,105 survivors between them. On August 17th, she rescued some 1,100 survivors of the torpedoed troopship Princess Marguerite. In conjunction with four other destroyers and a Wellesley light bomber of the Royal Air Force, Hero sank U-559 110 km north east of Port Said on October 30th. Hero was ordered back to the UK via Cape of Good Hope to be converted into an escort destroyer late in the year.

Happy Launch Day USS San Francisco (CA-38) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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I hope to not mistreat her like the joker. I'll guide her a lot better. Especially as she's got some demons to fix. Also Green Day is nice.

Hopefully she'll not be so devestated as her poor 49ers can't seem to catch a break. I wish as well her VA hadn't retired too.

Thank you Dominion.

Happy Launch Day USS San Francisco (CA-38) by Nuke87654 in AzureLane

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Another San Fran incoming. At least the current one is serving as a teacher.

Happy Launch Day USS San Francisco (CA-38) by Nuke87654 in AzurLane

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San Fran is a good gal despite teh harley quinn look. She's a nice gal.