RN Cruisers: Crown Colony Class

[timlewin]

super photos, that of poor Trinidad in the Arctic is very evocative of the conditions...

[Brian James]

Crown Colony Class Light Cruiser HMS Mauritius pictured with other Allied Shipping off the beachhead at Anzio in March 1944.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Gambia pictured at Malta in 1953.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Newfoundland pictured with Audacious Class Carrier HMS Eagle in the mid 1950's.

[designeraccd]

A stern view of GAMBIA............

Also, a nice view of JAMAICA in camo!! DFO

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Bermuda pictured with Fletcher Class Destroyer USS Stevens at Tsingtao in September 1945.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Mauritius pictured in August 1942.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Jamaica pictured refueling at sea during her effort to resupply the Allied garrison on the Island of Spitzbergen (the final leg of Operation Gearbox, 1942-44), North Atlantic south-west of Svabald Archipelago, Norway in mid-September 1944.

[Brian James]

Fiji Class Light Cruiser HMS Bermuda pictured at Tsingtao Dockyard during POW repatriation duties in September 1945...she had returned to Glasgow in June 1944 for a refit.
The refit removed her 'X' turret, and she was then dispatched to the Pacific as the war in Europe was ending, in May 1945. She arrived in Fremantle on July 1st to take on fuel and stores, before continuing on to Sydney, where she arrived on July 7th. There she undertook exercises with other RN ships serving in the Far East, including the Battleship Anson. Whilst in Sydney, news reached them of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the subsequent surrender of Japan. Bermuda then sailed for the Philippines, arriving on August 23rd. She then became part of an operation to recover allied prisoners of war from the previously occupied Japanese territories.
On September 6th Bermuda was attacked by Japanese aircraft, apparently unaware of the end of the war, or otherwise unwilling to surrender. Bermuda fought off the attack and was able to continue on her way. She then transported allied prisoners of war to Shanghai for repatriation.

[Brian James]

Launch day for Fiji Class, Ceylon Subclass Light Cruiser HMS Uganda, pictured as she slides down the ways at Vickers Armstrong Newcastle-upon-Tyne Shipyards on August 7th 1941.