HMS Newfoundland (59)

History
United Kingdom
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
Displacement	8,712 tons standard; 11,024 tons full load;
Length	169.3 m (555 ft)
Beam	18.9 m (62 ft)
Draught	5.3 m (17 ft)
Propulsion	Four oil fired three-drum Admiralty-type boilers; four-shaft geared turbines; four screws; 54.1 megawatts (72,500 shp);
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h)
Range	10,200 nautical miles (18,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h)
Complement	730 (wartime); 650 (peacetime);
Sensors and ; processing systems	Type 960M air search; Type 274 surface search; Type 277 height finding; Type 274 fire control (152 mm); Type 275 fire control (102 mm); Type 262（MRS1） fire control (40 mm);
Armament	3 triple BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval guns (152/50 mm); 4 twin Mk XVI 102/45 mm guns; 5×2 & 2x1 Mk3 40 mm Bofors;
Armour	82.5-88.9 mm belt; 25.4-50.8 mm turrets;
Aircraft carried	Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft (Later removed)

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.

The hospital ship HMHS Newfoundland was a different ship, although also torpedoed in the Mediterranean in 1943.

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