Name: | NEWFOUNDLAND |
Type: | Cruiser |
Keel: | 09/11/1939 |
Launched: | 19/12/1941 |
Completed: | 31/12/1942 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1589 |
Dimensions: | 8712disp - 11024disp, 538.0 x 61.5 x 16.0(draft)ft |
Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 72500shp |
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: | |
31/12/1942 | British Royal Navy |
02/11/1959 | Government of Peru; renamed ALMIRANTE GRAU |
1973 | Renamed CAPITAN QUINONES |
1979 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Ceylon or Crown Colony class |
23/07/1943: Torpedoed & damaged off Sicily by Italian submarine ASCIANGHI | |
1944: Re-commissioned after repairs at Malta and Boston Navy Yard | |
1979: Hulked & used as a static training ship | |
1979: Broken up |
Above photo as NEWFOUNDLAND courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as NEWFOUNDLAND courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as NEWFOUNDLAND courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as CAPITAN QUINONES courtesy of Photoship