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HMS Newfoundland (59)

Light cruiser of the Fiji class


HMS Newfoundland in 1945

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeLight cruiser
ClassFiji 
Pennant59 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 
Ordered 
Laid down9 Nov, 1939 
Launched19 Dec, 1941 
Commissioned21 Jan, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMS Newfoundland was sold to the Peruvian Navy on 30 December 1959.
She was renamed, Almirante Grau.
Renamed Capitan Quinones on 15 May 1973.
Capitan Quinones was discarded in 1979.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. William Rudolph Slayter, DSC, RN
13 October 1942 – ca. October 1943

Cdr. Guy L. Pilcher, RN
ca. October 1943 – December 1943

Capt. Richard William Ravenhill, DSC, RN
December 1943 – 1 September 1945 ???
CBE 8 June 1944

Capt. Cecil Charles Acland Allen, RN
??? 1 September 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Hit by U-boat
Damaged on 23 Jul, 1943 by U-407 (Brüller).

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