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    The Fiji-class cruisers were a class of eleven light cruisers of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service throughout the Second World War. Each ship...
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  • Thumbnail for Town-class cruiser (1936)
    The Town class consisted of 10 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The Towns were designed within the constraints of the London Naval...
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    three light cruisers that become the Tiger class came out of an order for eight 64-foot broad beam Modified and Improved Fiji-class cruisers as an immediate...
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  • Thumbnail for Minotaur-class cruiser (1943)
    modified version of the Fiji class incorporating war modifications and authorised in 1941. However, in spite of the heavy toll of cruisers in that year and the...
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    HMS Kenya (category World War II cruisers of the United Kingdom)
    HMS Kenya was a Fiji-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship was named after Kenya, a British possession at the time of the ship's construction. Kenya...
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    Moines-class cruisers equipped with 8-inch guns. The Royal Navy's last Fiji- and Tiger-class gun cruisers, and the USN's Gearing- and Forrest Sherman-class destroyers...
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    HMS Fiji was the lead ship of her class of 11 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the Second World War. Completed in mid-1940, she was...
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  • Navy HMS Ceylon (30), an Fiji-class cruiser commissioned in 1943 Ceylon-class cruiser, a sub-class of the Fiji-class cruisers Ceylon tea, a brand of tea...
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    HMS Jamaica (44) (category Crown Colony-class cruisers of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Jamaica, a Fiji-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, was named after the island of Jamaica, which was a British Crown Colony when she was built in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Dido-class cruiser
    The Dido class consisted of sixteen light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The first group of three ships were commissioned in 1940;...
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