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HMS Devonshire Guns, pennant number 39, was
a County-class heavy cruiser of the London subclass built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. The
ship spent most of her pre-World War II career
assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet aside from a
brief tour with the China Station. She spent the first
two months of the Second World War in the
Mediterranean until she was transferred to
the Home Fleet and became flagship of a cruiser
squadron. Devonshire took part in the Norwegian
Campaign in mid 1940 and evacuated much of the
Norwegian Government in June. Several months
later, she participated in the Battle of Dakar, a failed
attempt to seize the Vichy French colony
of Senegal in September. The ship remained in the
South Atlantic afterwards and supported Free
French efforts to take control of French Equatorial
Africa in addition to searching for
German commerce raiders.