BAP Capitán Quiñones (CL-83)

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Career

Laid down:	November 9, 1939
Launched:	December 19, 1941
Commissioned:	December 31, 1942
Decommissioned:	May 2, 1980
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,004 tonnes standard 11,263 tonnes full load
Length:	169.3 m
Beam:	18.9 m
Draft:	5.3 m
Propulsion:	4 Admiralty three-drum boilers 4 Parsons geared steam turbines 4 shafts; 72,500 shp
Speed:	31.5 knots
Range:	10,200 nm at 12 knots
Complement:	730 (wartime) 650 (peacetime)
Radar:	• Type 281B air search • Type 293 surface search • Type 960 height finding • Type 284 fire control (152 mm) • Type 283 fire control (102 mm) • Type 285 fire control (2 pdr)
Armament:	• 3 triple Mk XXIII 152/50 mm guns • 4 twin Mk XIX 102/45 mm guns • 5 twin and 2 single Bofors 40/60 mm gun
Armor:	82.5-88.9 mm belt 25.4-50.8 mm turrets

BAP Capitán Quiñones (CL-83) was a Crown Colony class cruiser in service with the Peruvian Navy. It was completed for the Royal Navy in 1942 as HMS Newfoundland and, after being withdrawn from service, commissioned by the Marina de Guerra del Perú on December 30, 1959. Renamed BAP Almirante Grau (CL-81), in honor of the Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau, it arrived to its new homeport of Callao on January 31, 1960.

As fleet flagship, the ship participated in several exercises, including the multinational UNITAS manoeuvres. In 1963, after the creation of the of the Servicio de Aviación Naval (Naval Aviation Service), the Almirante Grau started operating Bell 47G helicopters from its fantail. The ship was renamed Capitán Quiñones (CL-83) in 1973 after its former name was assigned to the recently acquired HNLMS De Ruyter of the De Zeven Provinciën class. As such it was passed to a reserve status on March 6, 1980 and decommissioned on May 2 of the same year.