RCN · CL
AfloatFiji-class light cruiser. Vickers-Armstrong of Newcastle-on-Tyne launched her on 7 August 1941 and the Royal Navy completed her on 3 January 1943. A German glider bomb badly damaged her off Salerno on 13 September 1943. She was commissioned as HMCS Uganda at Charleston on 21 October 1944, and in 1945 she screened British Pacific Fleet carriers off the Sakishima Gunto, bombarded Miyako and Dublon, and covered the July strikes off Japan until HMS Argonaut relieved her on 27 July. She was not sunk.
| Class | Fiji class |
|---|---|
| Type | Light cruiser (CL) |
| Hull | 66 |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne |
| Launched | 1941-08-07 |
| Commissioned | 1944-10-21 |
| Fate | Afloat. Renamed HMCS Quebec on 14 January 1952. Paid off on 13 June 1956. Arrived at Osaka on 6 February 1961 to be broken up. She was not sunk. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
Command
Okinawa
1945-04-01 · Joined Task Force 57 on 8 April 1945 to cover the Sakishima Gunto strikes of Operation ICEBERG and bombarded airfields on Miyako on 4 May; not sunk
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