Enterprise returned to the Clyde on Christmas Day 1942 for a year-long modernisation. She retained her distinctive six-inch battery while receiving altered secondary and air-defence equipment. After the refit, she operated with Glasgow, the New Zealand cruiser Gambia, Penelope, and destroyers against a force of eleven German destroyers and torpedo boats. The rebuilt cruiser could still contribute to a fast surface force before moving into the shore-bombardment role that followed.
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Modernisation before renewed surface action
A year-long refit updated Enterprise before she returned to operations against German destroyers and torpedo boats and then supported bombardment forces.