RN Cruisers: Crown Colony Class

[Brian James]

Crown Colony Class Light Cruiser HMS Trinidad pictured on convoy duty,off Iceland in early 1942.

[Brian James]

Ceylon Sub group,Crown Colony Class Light Cruiser HMS Ceylon seen with Dido Class Light AA Cruiser HMNZS Royalist at Trincomalee in 1959.

[Brian James]

Fiji Sub-Class,Crown Colony Class Light Cruiser HMS Bermuda pictured c1959.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Gambia pictured at Genoa in 1957.

[Dabtoe46]

Actually HMS Jamaica, Brian.

[jbryce1437]

Yes. definately HMS Jamaica. This photo may be from the same visit

Jim

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[Brian James]

Crown Colony Class Light Cruiser HMS Jamaica pictured conducting a RAS,September,1944.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Newfoundland at Bangkok in 1956.She went to New Guinea to support the Australian 6th Division in the Aitape-Wewak campaign. On June 14th 1945, as part of a BPF task group,she attacked the Japanese naval base at Truk, in the Caroline Islands during Operation Inmate.
On July 6th she departed the forward base of Manus in the Admiralty Islands with other ships of the BPF to take part in the Allied campaign against the Japanese home islands. On August 9th she took part in a bombardment of the Japanese city of Kamaishi.Newfoundland was part of a British Empire force which took control of the naval base at Yokosuka.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Ceylon pictured escorting the Royal Yacht Gothic in 1954.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Gambia pictured as she enters Rotterdam on November 21st 1960.