HMS Ceylon (C30)

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Career

Laid down:	April 27, 1939
Launched:	July 30, 1942
Commissioned:	July 13, 1943
General Characteristics (as completed)
Displacement:	8,712 tonnes standard 11,024 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 281 air search Type 272 surface search Type 277 height finding Type 274 fire control (152 mm) Type 283 fire control (102 mm) Type 282 fire control (2 pdr)
Armament:	3 triple Mk XXIII 152/50 mm guns 4 twin Mk XIX 102/45 mm guns 4 cuadruple Mk VII 2 pdr (40 mm) pom-pom guns 10 twin Mk II 20/70 mm guns 2 triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
Armor:	82.5-88.9 mm belt 25.4-50.8 mm turrets

HMS Ceylon (C30) was a Ceylon (modified Crown Colony) class cruiser of the British Royal Navy, named for the island of Ceylon — now Sri Lanka — which was a British possession when she was built.

Built by Stephens at Govan and launched on 30 July 1942, she was completed on 13 July 1943. After 2 months in the Home Fleet she was transferred to the Eastern Fleet and took part in many carrier raids, bombardments and patrols against Japanese-held territory until October 1945 when she returned to the UK for refit and lay-up.

Ceylon was re-commissioned in March 1950 for the 4th Cruiser Squadron East Indies and was actively engaged in the Korean War, carrying out a number of bombardments. She was paid off at Portsmouth in October 1954 for re-construction. Between 1956 and 1959 she served in the Mediterranean, Home Fleet and East of Suez.

On 18 December 1959, she returned to Portsmouth and on 9 February 1960 was transferred to the Peruvian Navy and re-named Coronel Bolognesi. She was deleted from the Navy List in 1980.

Crown Colony-class cruiser

Royal Navy

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