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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