HMS Swiftsure (08) Light cruiser Country: UK Type: Light cruiser Service: 1944 - 1953 Laid down: 22 September 1941 Launched: 4 February 1943 Commissioned: 22 June 1944 Decommissioned: 1953 Fate: Scrapped 17 October 1962

The Minotaur class of light cruisers of the Royal Navy, also known as the Swiftsure class, was designed as a modified version of the Crown Colony class incorporating wartime modifications and authorised in 1941. The building of this new class had a relatively low priority and only three were completed by the end of World War II. The class was originally to have consisted of eight ships, laid down in 1943. The end of the Second World War meant that only Minotaur, Swiftsure, and Superb were completed, whilst the others were laid up. Minotaur was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed Ontario after which the first of the class in the Royal Navy was the Swiftsure.

HMS Swiftsure (08) was a Minotaur class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 22 September 1941, launched on 4 February 1943 by Lady Wake-Walker and commissioned on 22 June 1944. By November 1944, Swiftsure was deployed with the newly formed British Pacific Fleet. She participated in the Okinawa Campaign and a raid on Truk. In August 1945 she entered Hong Kong for the Japanese surrender there. Swiftsure remained in service postwar. While being refit in 1959, tthe refit was cancelled and she was put up for disposal. She was eventually sold, arriving at the Inverkeithing yard of T. W. Ward on 17 October 1962 to be scrapped.