HMS Naiad was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy which served in the Second World War.

During that month she was involved in the destruction of the German weather ship Hinrich Freese off Jan Mayen.

In December and January she escorted convoys to Freetown in Sierra Leone, but at the end of January 1941 was back in northern waters where she briefly sighted the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau south of Iceland as they were about to break out into the Atlantic (Operation Berlin).

By May 1941 Naiad was with Force H in the Mediterranean on Malta convoy operations, and flagship of the 15th Cruiser Squadron.

This report was false, and on the return, on 11 March 1942, Naiad was sunk by the German submarine U-565 south of Crete.