HMS Newfoundland (59)
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| Name: | HMS Newfoundland |
| Namesake: | Dominion of Newfoundland |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend |
| Laid down: | 9 November 1939 |
| Launched: | 19 December 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 21 January 1943 |
| Out of service: | Sold to Peruvian Navy on 30 December 1959 |
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| Name: | BAP Almirante Grau |
| Namesake: | Miguel Grau Seminario |
| Acquired: | 30 December 1959 |
| Renamed: | Renamed Capitan Quinones on 15 May 1973 |
| Reclassified: | Static training ship in 1979 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1979 |
| General characteristics Post 1951 modernisation | |
| Class and type: | Crown Colony-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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| Aircraft carried: | Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft (Later removed) |
HMS Newfoundland was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. Named after the Dominion of Newfoundland, she fought in the Second World War and was later sold to the Peruvian Navy.
The hospital ship HMHS Newfoundland was a different ship, although also torpedoed in the Mediterranean in 1943.
Newfoundland was built by Swan Hunter and launched 19 December 1941 by the wife of the then British Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin. The ship was completed in December 1942 and commissioned the next month.
After commissioning Newfoundland joined the 10th Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet. Early in 1943 the ship became flagship of the 15th Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean. On the night of 13/14 July 1943, during Sicily Campaign, she provided effective support for 1st Parachute Brigade helping to secure the Primasole Bridge, linking Catania with Syra.
On 23 July 1943, she was torpedoed by the Italian submarine Ascianghi. Her rudder having been blown off, temporary repairs were carried out at Malta. Later, steering by her propellers only, and with the assistance of "jury rigged" sails between her funnels, she steamed to the Boston Navy Yard for major repairs.
In 1944 the ship was re-commissioned for service in the Far East. While at Alexandria an exploding air vessel occurred in one of the torpedoes in the port tubes which caused severe damage and one casualty. The repairs delayed her arrival in the Far East for service with the British Pacific Fleet (BPF). Newfoundland went to New Guinea to support the Australian 6th Division in the Aitape-Wewak campaign. On 14 June 1945, as part of a BPF task group, Newfoundland attacked the Japanese naval base at Truk, in the Caroline Islands during Operation Inmate.
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