BAP Coronel Bolognesi (CL-82)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Class and type: | Crown Colony-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Ceylon |
| Builder: | Alexander Stephen and Sons, Govan |
| Laid down: | April 27, 1939 |
| Launched: | July 30, 1942 |
| Commissioned: | July 13, 1943 |
| Out of service: | Transferred to Peruvian Navy on 18 December 1959 |
| Career (Peru) |  |
| Name: | BAP Coronel Bolognesi |
| Commissioned: | February 9, 1960 |
| Decommissioned: | September 20, 1982 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in Taiwan, August 1985 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,712 tonnes standard 11,024 tons full load |
| Length: | 169.3 m (555.5 ft) |
| Beam: | 18.9 m (62 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.3 m (16.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Four oil fired three-drum Admiralty-type boilers four-shaft geared turbines four screws 54.1 megawatts (72,500 shp) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
| Range: | 10,200 nm at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 730 (wartime) 650 (peacetime) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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 quadruple Mk VII 2 pdr (40 mm) pom-pom guns 10 twin Mk II 20/70 mm guns 2 triple 533 mm torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 82.5-88.9 mm belt 25.4-50.8 mm turrets |
| Aircraft carried: | Bell 47G helicopter (deck only) |
BAP Coronel Bolognesi (CL-82) was a Crown Colony class cruiser in service with the Peruvian Navy. It was completed for the Royal Navy in 1943 as HMS Ceylon and, after being withdrawn from service, commissioned by the Marina de Guerra del Perú on February 9, 1960. Renamed BAP Coronel Bolognesi (CL-82), in honor of the Peruvian Colonel Francisco Bolognesi, it arrived to its new homeport of Callao on March 19, 1960.
In service, the ship has participated in several exercises, including the multinational UNITAS manoeuvres, as well as taking part in disaster relief operations after the 1970 Ancash earthquake. In 1963, after the creation of the of the Servicio de Aviación Naval (Naval Aviation Service), the Coronel Bolognesi started operating Bell 47G helicopters from its fantail. It was passed to a reserve status on June 9, 1981, renamed Pontón Perú (UAI-113) on May 30, 1982 and decommissioned on September 20 of the same year.
[edit] Sources
- Rodríguez Asti, John, Cruceros. Buques de la Marina de Guerra del Perú desde 1884. Dirección de Intereses Marítimos, 2000.
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