Billy Budd (opera) the conflict between good and evil, he is tormented by guilt over the case of Billy Budd on board his ship, HMS "Indomitable", some years earlier. The crew of the Indomitable works on deck. For slipping and bumping into an officer, the Novice is sentenced to be flogged. At the same time a cutter approaches, returning from a merchant ship where it has pressed three sailors into the Royal Navy. One of these sailors, Billy Budd, seems overjoyed with his situation – entirely different from the other two who are not so happy. Claggart, the Master-at-Arms, calls him "a find
HMS Euryalus (42) August, after the surrender of Japan. She arrived back at Manus on 18 August and on 27 August sailed as TU.111.2 with the carriers HMS "Indomitable" and , the cruisers , , and the destroyers , and for the reoccupation of Hong Kong. On 29 August 1945 she entered Hong Kong with HMS "Swiftsure" and the landing ship . "Euryalus" was the last original "Dido" operational in Royal Navy, until 1954, mainly on the South Atlantic station. The ship was the most modernised of the original "Dido"s, having been extensively updated from October 1943 to June 1944 at John Brown