Billy Budd (opera) percussion (six players [xylophone, glockenspiel, triangle, block, tambourine, side drum, tenor drum, bass drum, whip, cymbals, small gong, 4 drums (played by drummers on stage)]), harp, strings. Prologue "Scene 1: Main deck and quarter-deck of "HMS Indomitable" " "Scene 2: Address" Act 2 "Scene 1: Captain Vere's cabin" "Scene 2: Berth-deck" Act 3 "Scene 1: Main deck and quarter-deck" "Scene 2: Captain Vere's cabin" Act 4 "Scene 1: Bay of the upper gun-deck" "Scene 2: Main deck and quarter-deck" Epilogue Captain Edward Fairfax Vere, an old man, reflects on his life and his time in the navy. He reflects on
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