HMS Uganda (66)

Uganda underway
History
United Kingdom
Name:	Uganda
Ordered:	1939
Builder:	Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laid down:	20 July 1939
Launched:	7 August 1941
Commissioned:	3 January 1943
Out of service:	Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy on 21 October 1944
Identification:	Pennant number: 66
Honours and awards:	Atlantic 1943, Sicily 1943, Salerno 1943, Mediterranean 1943
Canada
Name:	Uganda
Acquired:	21 October 1944
Commissioned:	21 October 1944
Decommissioned:	1 August 1947
Honours and awards:	Okinawa 1945
Renamed:	HMCS Quebec 14 January 1952
Recommissioned:	14 January 1952
Decommissioned:	15 June 1956
Identification:	Pennant number: C66
Motto:	Nos canons parleront (Our cannons shall speak)
Fate:	Arrived at Osaka, Japan, on 6 February 1961 for scrapping
Badge:	Or, a maple leaf vert charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first
General characteristics
Class and type:	Crown Colony-class light cruiser
Displacement:	8,712 tonnes standard 11,024 tons full load
Length:	169.3 m (555 ft 5 in)
Beam:	18.9 m (62 ft 0 in)
Draught:	5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)
Propulsion:	4 x oil fired three-drum Admiralty-type boilers four-shaft geared turbines four screws 54,100 kW (72,500 shp)
Speed:	33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range:	10,200 nmi (18,900 km; 11,700 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	730 (wartime) 650 (peacetime)
Sensors and processing systems:	Type 281 air search Type 272 surface search Type 277 height finding Type 274 fire control (152 mm) Type 283 fire control (102 mm) Type 282 fire control (2 pdr)
Armament:	3 triple BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XXIII guns 4 twin QF Mk XVI 4-inch (102 mm) guns 4 quadruple Mk VII 2-pounder (40 mm) guns 10 twin Mk II 20 mm/70 cal guns 2 triple 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Belt 82.5–88.9 mm (3.25–3.50 in) Turrets 25.4–50.8 mm (1.00–2.00 in)
Aircraft carried:	Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft, removed November 1943.

HMS Uganda, was a Second World War-era Crown Colony-class light cruiser launched in 1941. She served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944, including operations in the Mediterranean, and was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Uganda in October 1944. She served in the Pacific theatre in 1945 and was put into reserve in 1947. When she was reactivated for the Korean War in 1952 she was renamed HMCS Quebec. She was decommissioned for the last time in 1956 and scrapped in Japan in 1961.

HMS Uganda was one of the Ceylon sub-class (the second group of three ships built in 1939) of the Crown Colony-class cruisers, and built by Vickers-Armstrong at their Walker yard. She was launched on 7 August 1941 and commissioned on 3 January 1943.

In March 1943 after training at Scapa Flow, Uganda sailed as convoy escort to protect a Sierra Leone-bound convoy from the German Narvik-class destroyers operating out of the Bay of Biscay. After two such convoy duties, she was sent as escort for the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary carrying Winston Churchill and his staff to Washington. The journey was made at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph), and the ship sailed into Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland low on fuel. Upon return from that duty Uganda returned to Plymouth for a refit.

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