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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.
Scout cruisers. Almirante Grau class. Almirante Grau (1906) - retired 1958; Coronel Bolognesi (1906) - retired 1958; Armored cruiser. Comandante Aguirre (ex-French Dupuy de Lôme) (1890) - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914; Light cruisers. Fiji class. Capitán Quiñones (1941, ex-British HMS Newfoundland) - assigned 1959, retired 1979.
INS Mysore was a Fiji-class light cruiser commissioned in the Indian Navy in 1957. She was acquired from the Royal Navy, where she served in World War II as HMS Nigeria. Mysore was the second cruiser to be purchased by independent India. She was commissioned into the Indian Navy in August 1957.
In all, a further two cruisers and eight merchant ships were lost in the night action of 12/13 August; Only Rochester Castle, Port Chalmers, Melbourne Star, Brisbane Star and the oil tanker Ohio made it to Grand Harbour Valletta, and Kenya was left as the most powerful surviving ship in Force X. After leading the surviving ships of the convoy ...