HMS Newfoundland (59)
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Not to be confused with HMCS Newfoundland.
HMS Newfoundland was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. Named after the Dominion of Newfoundland, she participated in the Second World War and was later sold to the Peruvian Navy.
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Name | Newfoundland |
Namesake | Dominion of Newfoundland |
Builder | Swan Hunter, Wallsend |
Laid down | 9 November 1939 |
Launched | 19 December 1941 |
Commissioned | 21 January 1943 |
Identification | Pennant number: 59 |
Honours and awards | Mediterranean 1940–1945, Sicily 1943 |
Fate | Sold to Peruvian Navy, 30 December 1959 |
Badge | A caribou |
Peru | |
Name | BAP Almirante Grau |
Namesake | Miguel Grau Seminario |
Acquired | 30 December 1959 |
Renamed | Renamed Capitan Quinones on 15 May 1973 |
Reclassified | As a static training ship, 1979 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1979 |
General characteristics Post 1951 modernisation | |
Class and type | Fiji-class light cruiser |
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Length | 169.3 m (555 ft) |
Beam | 18.9 m (62 ft) |
Draught | 5.3 m (17 ft) |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
Range | 10,200 nautical miles (18,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
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Armour | |
Aircraft carried | Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft (Later removed) |
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The hospital ship HMHS Newfoundland was a different ship, although also torpedoed in the Mediterranean in 1943.