HMS Naiad was a British Dido Class cruiser of 5450 tons displacement launched in 1939. HMS Naiad was powered by Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots. Armaments consisted of ten 5.25-inch guns, six mounted in three twin super firing turrets and four aft; sixteen smaller guns and six 21-inch torpedo tubes arranged in two triples. One aircraft was also carried. Research Naiad II
 
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