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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 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 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 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.
Thus, the first class cruisers built between the Orlando class (1886) and the Cressy class (1897) were, strictly speaking, protected cruisers as they lacked an armoured belt. The first class cruiser was succeeded by the battlecruiser in the Royal Navy. Shannon first class armoured cruiser, (1875) 5,670 tons, 2×10in, 7×9inch Shannon (1875 ...
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.
HMS Uganda was a Second World War-era Fiji-class light cruiser launched in 1941. She served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944, including operations in the Mediterranean, and was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Uganda in October 1944.