having been extensively updated from October 1943 to June 1944 at John Brown on the Clyde with new light anti-aircraft armament of 20 mm, 40 mm and 2-pounder mountings and a generally new radar suite with Type 293 radar the standard post-war Royal Navy target indicator and close-range air and surface search, Type 272 heightfinders and surface warning and new navigation radar. After the end of World War II Euryalus spent 18 further months in the Pacific Fleet operating from Sydney, Japan and Hong Kong before returning to the UK for a year-long modernisation at Rosyth in 1947–48. By this time the long range airwarning radar on Euryalus was the late war Type 279b/281, the precursor of the post-1945, Type 960. Photos reveal that Euryaluss turrets were also modified externally in the same way as s and s with the insertion in the turret for operators of a large Perspex sighting windows. In the early 1950s a major modernisation was planned for Dido-class cruisers Phoebe, Diadem and Cleopatra, refitting them in a similar pattern to HMS Royalist with the further improvement of new boilers, similar to those of the . The $4.5 million cost of Royalists update to a 1950s fleet picket standard ruled this out. Notes References External links Dido-class cruisers Ships built in Chatham 1939 ships World War II cruisers of the United Kingdom Cold War cruisers of the United Kingdom