HMS Curlew was a British light cruiser of the class Ceres that was laid down by the British company Vickers on the 14. December 1917. The cruiser participated i several minor missions at the end of first world war under 5th LCS in Harwich and was in 1919 transferred to 1st LCS in the Atlantic fleet. Until 1935 Curlew did service i several different squadrons and had many missions in Asia and South America until she was put in the reserve in 1927. In the mid thirties the British Admiralty produced several different proto types of new warships, and HMS Curlew was pointed out as a prototype for a new class of Antiaircraft cruisers, and was rebuilt and and armed from 1935. Curlew was still at the shipyard at the outbreak of second world war in 1939, but was quickly put in Home Fleet. At the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, the British launched an expedition to help the Norwegian forces, and HMS Curlew was one of the naval units assigned to participate. Curlew did service as an escort along the Norwegian coastline, and on the 26th of May 1940 she laid outside Skånland when she was attacked by German airplanes. The cruiser was heavily damaged under the assault, and was put ashore and abandoned by the crew whom salvaged different inventory and weapons. The British expeditionary force started now to pull out from the battles in Norway, and HMS Curlew was abandoned where she laid in the shallow waters at Skånland, and were mainly salvaged by Høvding Skipsopphugging in the sixties. Today the remains of HMS Curlew rest on five to forty meters depth at Lavangen outside Skånland. To get out to the remains of the cruiser you need a boat since the wreck debris start to appear one hundred meters ashore ..