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The Fiji-class cruisers were a class of eleven light cruisers of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service throughout the Second World War. Each ship of the class was named after a Crown colony or other constituent territory of the British Commonwealth and Empire. The class was also known as the Colony class, [1] or Crown Colony class. [2]
HMS Fiji was the lead ship of her class of 11 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the Second World War. Completed in mid-1940, she was initially assigned to the Home Fleet and was detached to escort a force tasked to force French West Africa to join the Free French. The ship was torpedoed en route and required six months to ...
HMS Bermuda (pennant number 52, later C52) was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was completed during World War II and served in that conflict. She was named for the British territory of Bermuda, and was the eighth vessel of that name. Bermuda was built by John Brown & Company of Clydebank and launched on 11 September 1941.
Name: HMS Trinidad: Namesake: Trinidad: Builder: HM Dockyard Devonport: Laid down: 21 April 1938: Launched: 21 March 1941: Commissioned: 14 October 1941: Identification: Pennant number:46: Fate: Damaged in air attack and scuttled 15 May 1942: General characteristics (as built) Class and type: Fiji-class light cruiser: Displacement: 8,530 long ...
HMS Jamaica, a Fiji-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, was named after the island of Jamaica, which was a British Crown Colony when she was built in the late 1930s. The light cruiser spent almost her entire wartime career on Arctic convoy duties, except for a deployment south for the landings in North Africa in November 1942.
HMS Newfoundland was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. Named after the Dominion of Newfoundland, she participated in the Second World War and was later sold to the Peruvian Navy and renamed BAP Almirante Grau. The hospital ship HMHS Newfoundland was a different ship, although also torpedoed in the Mediterranean in 1943.
Name: Coronel Bolognesi: Commissioned: 9 February 1960: Decommissioned: 20 September 1982: Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan, August 1985: General characteristics; Class and type: Fiji-class light cruiser: Displacement: 8,712 tonnes standard; 11,024 tons full load; Length: 169.3 m (555 ft 5 in) Beam: 18.9 m (62 ft 0 in) Draught: 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in ...
HMS Ceylon was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was of the Ceylon sub class, named after the island and British colony of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The cruiser saw service in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres during the Second World War. In the postwar era, she participated in actions in Egypt and the Korean War.