| Name: | GAMBIA |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 24/07/1939 |
| Launched: | 30/11/1940 |
| Completed: | 03/02/1942 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1575 |
| Dimensions: | 8530disp - 10450disp, 538.0 x 61.5 x 16.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 80000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 33.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 3 x 6.0ins, 4 x 2 x 4.0ins, 2 x 4 x 2pdr, 4 x 1 x 2pdr guns; |
| 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes; 2 x aircraft | |
| History: | |
| 03/02/1942 | British Royal Navy |
| 22/09/1943 | Transferred to Royal New Zealand Navy |
| 27/03/1946 | Transferred to British Royal Navy |
| 05/12/1968 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Fiji or Crown Colony class |
| 12/1960: Paid off into reserve at Portsmouth | |
| 05/12/1968: Arrived at Inverkeithing for breaking up by TW Ward Ltd |
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