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	Crown Colony class cruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first eight are known as the Fiji class, while the last three to be built are commonly referred to as the Ceylon class and were built to a slightly modified design.
		Ceylon was later sold to Peru, being renamed Coronel Bolognesi, along with Newfoundland, which was renamed Almirante Grau.
		That honour went to Blake, a modified Tiger-class cruiser, which was decommissioned in 1979, seemingly the last ever cruiser to be in the Royal Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crown_Colony_class_cruiser (1391 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Crown colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The first eight are known as the Fiji class, while the last three to be built are commonly referred to as the Ceylon class and were modified slightly.
		They were built due to the limitations that the Washington Treaty imposed on cruisers, that they should not exceed 10,000 tons, and were basically smaller derivatives of the Town-class cruiser, though only slightly.
		Due to the size of the Crown Colony class, a number of the ships had to have one of their main turrets removed to allow 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns to be added.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Crown_colony (901 words)

	The Sunday Times Plus Section
		Ceylon and the two other cruisers of her class were, in effect, 9000 ton cruisers built on an 8000 ton hull.
		Ceylon nearly saw action for the first time on the return journey when Japanese planes carrying torpedoes tried to attack the fleet, but they were all shot down short of their target by carrier-based fighters.
		Ceylon was present at the inauguration of the Maldive Islands as a Republic in January 1953, and a year later she escorted the S. Gothic, which carried Queen Ellzabeth II, from the Cocos Islands to Hobart, Australia.
	lakdiva.org /coins/media/st_1998.04.19_somerville.html (2480 words)

	HMAS Hobart (1939) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The HMAS Hobart was a Leander class light cruiser which served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II.
		The Hobart was the second of its class to be modified for Australian service, and the first to be named after the city of Hobart in Tasmania.
		She missed sailling with the rest of the attack force heading for the Battle of the Java Sea because of damage suffered by the tanker that she was refueling from.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Hobart_(1939) (395 words)

	HMS Ceylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		She was, in effect a 9000 tons cruiser built on a 8000 tons hull, the necessary weight saving being achieved by reducing protection and limiting the size of machinery.
		On 1 June Ceylon relieved the cruiser PHOEBE patrolling with a number of Indian sloops between the Mergui Achipelago and Port Blair in the Andaman Sea to prevent the evacuation of Japanese troops and supplies.
		She was to be part of a cruiser squadron consisting of Jamaica, Newfoundland, Ceylon and Orion, escorting the Carrier Force Bulwark, Albion, Theseus and Ocean carrying troops taking part in Operation Musketeer Revise, the response of Britain and France to the nationalisation of the Suez canal by Egypt.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /ceylon.htm (2823 words)

	USS Saratoga IV
		The fourth Saratoga (CV-3) was laid down on 25 September 1920 as Battle Cruiser #3 by the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J.; ordered converted to an aircraft earrier and reclassified CV 3 on 1 July 1922 in accordance with the Washington Treaty limiting naval armaments; launched on 7 April 1925, sponsored by Mrs.
		In a daring move Saratoga was detached from the fleet with only a single cruiser as escort to make a wide sweep to the south and "attack" the Panama Canal, which was defended by the Seouting Fleet and Saratoga's sister ship, Lexington.
		Cruiser Minneapolis took the carrier under tow while she flew her aircraft off to shore bases.
	www.multied.com /navy/cruiser/saratogaIV.html (2908 words)

	Avalanche Press
		When originally ordered these were powerful cruisers by current standards: 6,600 tons and ten 5.9-inch guns, compared to 4,100 tons and five 6-inch guns in the contemporary British “C” class, and 5,600 tons and eight 5.9-inch in the German Cöln class of 1916.
		Originally intended as a heavy cruiser and a suitable flagship, financial structures caused the design to shrink several times and she emerged from the drawing table as a 6,400 ton light cruiser with six 5.9-inch guns.
		Her crew took the incomplete ship across the North Sea, and she was completed at Portsmouth dockyard as an anti-aircraft cruiser The British yard could not come up with a fire control system for the Dutch cruiser’s main battery that matched the Hazemeyer’s technical sophistication.
	www.avalanchepress.com /CruiserSquadron.php (889 words)

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		Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean and served there from September 1925 until 1929, at which time she went in for a refit.
		In 1936 a plan was prepared to convert the class into antiaircraft cruisers by removing the six-inch guns and replacing them with four twin 4.5-inch HA gun mounts, a HA control system, two Vickers quadruple.50 machine gun mounts and a quadruple pom-pom.
		Along with the numerous earlier members of the C Class, these cruisers were of a moderate size but were short ranged, due to their intended area of operations, the North Sea.
	www.steelnavy.com /NikoConrad.htm (3756 words)

	HMS Gambia (C48) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Gambia was a Crown Colony class cruiser of the Royal Navy.
		Because New Zealand's two other cruisers of the time, HMNZS Leander and HMNZS Achilles were damaged, it was decided in discussions with the Royal Navy Admiralty that HMS Gambia would be recommissioned as HMNZS Gambia, for the use of the Royal New Zealand Navy.
		Gambia served with the British Pacific Fleet, and participated in attacks on Japanese positions throughout the Pacific.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Gambia (286 words)

	Lee Maritime Books - Naval & Royal Navy Books
		Some of the objects of the cruise was to obtain from the Chinese the same rights for Russian ships that had been granted to ships of other powers when the Nanking Treaty ports had been thrown open, and also to negotiate with the Japanese for a trade treaty and the opening of their ports.
		Also, there are lists of each RN destroyer class that fought in the war, with details of each class, together with the launch date and the fate of each member.
		Using mainly personal accounts, it tells what it was like to serve in battleships, cruisers and destroyers in WW2, describing the intensity of action, as well as capturing the atmosphere of everyday life and routine on the lower deck and in the wardroom.
	www.leemaritimebooks.com /Books/Naval.asp (12206 words)

	The Sullivan
		While the damaged cruisers were making their way to Ulithi, a Japanese surface force attempted to close the formation before TF 38 intervened to drive them back.
		Then, after making a midshipman training cruise in which she conducted antisubmarine warfare operations, the destroyer sailed for another Mediterranean deployment which lasted until she returned home in the autumn.
		Her cruises with the reserves embarked were devoted mostly to ASW exercises and took the ship to Canadian ports such as Halifax, Nova Scotia; St. John, New Brunswick; and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in the north to Palm Beach, Fla., in the south.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t4/the_sullivans-i.htm (5197 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Voyages of the Enterprise - A World at War / Part 2
		She was also the first British cruiser to carry a twin-gun forward turret, a trend that the Royal Navy would continue.
		The cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were sunk, but miraculously, the Enterprise and two destroyers were able to rescue 1,122 of the 1,546 crewmen of the two unfortunate ships.
		On December 28, 1943, the Enterprise, commanded by Captain Grant of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the cruiser Glasgow engaged a German convoy consisting of 11 destroyers and fleet torpedo boats in the Bay of Biscay.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/enterprise/voych08b.htm (1516 words)

	USS "Worcester" (CL 144) Operational History
		While the light cruiser and her consorts had been operating in the Mediterranean, war had broken out in Korea on 25 June.
		Three minutes later, the cruiser fired three rounds of 6-inch projectiles in the direction of the intruder to warn her--it turned out to be a British Short "Sunderland" flying boat on patrol.
		WORCESTER screened the fast carrier task forces as their planes dropped lethal loads on North Korean targets ashore until she was detached on the 20th to conduct a shore bombardment mission as part of TG 95.2 in the vicinity of Pohang Dong.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /StZjednoczone/Cruisers/CL_1947_Worcester_class/_Worcester_history.html (2437 words)

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		The King George V class, consisting of five battleships with ten 14-inch guns, was in keeping with the agreements.
		The Sheffield survived to be the last of her class, scrapped in 1969.
		She was one of three cruisers that chased the Admiral Graf Spee into Montevideo and was engaged by that ship (13 December 1939).
	www.apple2.org.za /gswv/a2zine/Docs/Dreadnoughts.txt (7264 words)

	Imperial Cruisers
		The OI is ordered to Maizuru for conversion to a "torpedo cruiser" with eleven Type 92 quadruple 61-cm torpedo tube (TT) mounts, a total of 44 tubes.
		The OI and her sister torpedo cruiser, the KITAKAMI, are assigned in the First Fleet to Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Kishi Fukuji's (former CO of FUSO) CruDiv 9.
		When the cruiser is 1,400 yards astern, Whitaker fires his four stern tubes at the OI.
	www.combinedfleet.com /oi_t.htm (1282 words)

	Welcome to the USS Toledo (CA-133) Website
		The heavy cruiser TOLEDO was named in recognition of cities with the same name in the states of Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Oregon.
		The cruiser's refurbishment was completed on February 18, 1949; and she headed back to Long Beach for six months of training along the coasts of California, Mexico, and the Isthmus of Panama.
		For the next month, she cruised off the coast near Inchon where she provided gunfire support for the front-line troops of the I Corps, guarding the Han River line during the communist spring offensive of 1951.
	www.usstoledoca133.com (3705 words)

	Saxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At the outbreak of the war, Vice Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee commanded six cruisers of the German Far Eastern Squadron at Ponape in the Carolines; the Japanese declaration of war compelled him to lead most of his force east to South America and the battles of Coronel and the Falklands.
		The cruisers Yahagi, Suma, Niitaka, and Tsushima, accompanied by a squadron of destroyers, initiated patrols in the South China Sea, Sulu Sea, Dutch East Indies, and Indian Ocean.
		The Japanese navy relieved the Akashi in June 1917 with the armored cruiser Izumo and reinforced the Malta squadron with the destroyers Kashi, Hinoki, Momo, and Yanagi.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2000/winter/art3-w00.htm (8958 words)

	The US Navy
		The fifth Saratoga (CV 3) was laid down on 25 September 1920 as Battle Cruiser #3 by the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J.; ordered converted to an aircraft carrier and reclassified CV-3 on 1 July 1922 in accordance with the Washington Treaty limiting naval armaments.
		In a daring move Saratoga was detached from the fleet with only a single cruiser as escort to make a wide sweep to the south and "attack" the Panama Canal, which was defended by the Scouting Fleet and Saratoga's sister ship, USS Lexington (CV 2).
		The cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA 36) took the carrier under tow while she flew her aircraft off to shore bases.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/navy_legacy.asp?id=12 (2997 words)

	HMS Newfoundland General Information
		Three ships including HMS Newfoundland were completed to the revised design and became known as the Modified Colony Class or Ceylon Class cruisers.
		Seaplanes facilities were not included in the design of the Ceylon Class and were removed in 1942 from the earlier design.
		Ships of this class were 555.5 feet in overall length with a beam of 62 feet and a mean draught of 16.5 feet.
	www.hmsnewfoundland.org.uk /newfoundlandgeneralinformation.htm (607 words)

	Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		From 9-12 July she cruised the Bristol Bay area, delivering mail to cod fish schooner., transporting one of the fishing vessels' crew to Unalaska for hospitalization and another, a mental patient, for transfer to Seattle.
		On 5 April 1941, the Commandant sent identical instructions to the commanding officers of each of the ten vessels that, when all armament had been installed and their vessels degaussed and calibrated, they were to report to the Commander of the New York District.
		She was eventually scrapped in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) sometime during 1949 or 1950.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/Shoshone_1931.html (2538 words)

	history
		Fireman First Class Buckley was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for displaying exceptional courage in attempting to board and salvage a blockade runner which had been intercepted by his ship Eberle (DD-430) on 10 March 1943.
		Upon arrival at her destination on the 7th of June, the vessel proceeded to the Boston Navy Yard for post-shakedown availability where, among other alterations and repairs, a 40 millimeter quad was substituted for the #2 torpedo mount.
		At the close of the year DENNIS J. BUCKLEY was continuing her active support of the Seventh Fleet commitments to the war effort by her naval gunfire support in the South Vietnam area.
	www.djbuckley.com /history.htm (10035 words)

	Ross Beattie's Genealogy Homepage - Vessels - HMAS Canberra
		The Chicago, after her starboard 5” gun was able to score a hit on the briefly illuminated Tenryu, was struck by two torpedoes from Kako, one of which exploded and caused damage to the bow; it then disengaged and moved southwest, near where the Yunagi was inflicting damage on the Jarvis.
		Some sixteen torpedo bombers with fifteen fighters on their way to Guadalcanal were diverted to attack Jarvis, wrongly identified as an Achilles class cruiser by a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft; the Jarvis’s last action downed two aircraft and damaged four others, and perhaps more importantly spared the landing force.
		During this episode the Ellet approached, and thinking the Selfridge was firing on a damaged Japanese cruiser, also opened fire on the Canberra from 5000 yards; several of her 106 5" shells hit their target before the Selfridge could inform her that she was firing at Canberra.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Park/2283/vessels/canberra.html (2874 words)

	Fiji Class
		HMS Fiji, HMS Kenya, HMS Mauritius, HMS Nigeria, HMS Trinidad, HMS Ceylon, HMS Gambia, HMS Jamaica, HMS Uganda, HMS Bermuda, HMS New Foundland including crew and families of ex-crew members notice board for the Fiji Class cruisers.
		Ceylon, Uganda and Newfoundland armaments as follows: Nine 6 inch guns in threes.
		Serving in the 8th cruiser squadron in the west Indies station From October 1946.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /fiji_class.htm (1432 words)

	Norfolk Class
		she was part of the class which included HMS Norfolk, (two other ships were planned but were cancelled in 1930, they were to be HMS Northumberland and HMS Surrey) She carried a seaplane in1 931 and had a catapult added in 1932.
		she was part of the class which included HMS Dorsetshire, (two other ships were planned but were cancelled in 1930, they were to be HMS Northumberland and HMS Surrey) She carried a seaplane in 1931 and had a catapult added in 1932.
		The heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire is brought up to sink the blazing wreck of the Bismarck with torpedoes at around 10:30 hours on the morning of May 27th 1941.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /norfolk_class.htm (1431 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Missouri (BB 11)
		She returned to ordinary at Philadelphia 2 December 1914, but recommissioned 15 April 1915 to train midshipmen in the Caribbean and on a cruise through the Panama Canal to California ports.
		She returned to the Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia 18 October 1915, recommissioned 2 May 1916, and again conducted training along the east coast and in the Caribbean until placed in ordinary for the winter at Philadelphia.
		Following the Armistice, the battleship was attached to the Cruiser and Transport Force, departing Norfolk 15 February 1919 on the first of four voyages to Brest to return 3,278 U.S. troops to east coast ports.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/missouri/bb11-mo.html (684 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Arriving on 13 March 1945, the BLACK was underway to conduct battle-training exercises with Task Group 58.7 on the morning of 14 March 1945.
		Most of it was spent leading the cruisers USS BREMERTON (CA-130), 15 to 30 May 1953, and USS ST. PAUL (CA-73), 30 May to 1 June, around like a great Dane on a leash, but at night we had the opportunity of firing harassing and interdiction missions at targets on the beach.
		Leaving equatorial latitudes, we sailed west and north to Columbo, Ceylon, where we stopped 22 through 26 June 1953 for four sweltering days and was joined by the USS McCORD (DD-534).
	www.ussblack.com /history.htm (11664 words)

	The Australian Merchant Navy \| The Battle of Ceylon
		Although the Battle of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is marked as having commenced on Easter Sunday 1942 it was not made public until just a year later.
		Admiral Nagumo, the conqueror of Pearl Harbor, sailed from Singapore in March 1942 to engage British surface and air forces in the Indian Ocean, the purpose to support the Japanese army's advance into Burma. This attack was part of what was known as the Kuroshima strategy.
		There were two attacks on Ceylon, the first on Colombo, on April 5th. The Japanese Pacific Fleet had left Singapore bound for Ceylon, with four aircraft carriers, three battleships, five cruisers and a screen of destroyers.
	www.merchant-navy-ships.com /index.php?id=80,93,1,1,1,0 (782 words)

	USN Ships--USS Marblehead (CL-12)
		USS Marblehead, a 7050-ton Omaha class light cruiser built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in September 1924.
		She made her shakedown cruise to Europe and in 1925 steamed through the South Pacific on a voyage to and from Australia.
		The cruiser served with the U.S. Fleet in the Atlantic and Pacific during the remainder of the 1920s and most of the 1930s.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/cl12.htm (756 words)

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