HMS Gambia (48)
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HMS Gambia (pennant number 48, later C48) was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was in the service of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) as HMNZS Gambia from 1943 to 1946. She was named after the then Crown colony of the Gambia, and has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Gambia |
Namesake | Gambia Colony and Protectorate |
Builder | Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear |
Laid down | 24 July 1939 |
Launched | 30 November 1940 |
Commissioned | 21 February 1942 |
Out of service | Transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy, 22 September 1943 |
Identification | Pennant number: 48 |
New Zealand | |
Name | Gambia |
Commissioned | 22 September 1943 |
Out of service | Returned to the Royal Navy, 27 March 1946 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Gambia |
Recommissioned | 1 July 1946 |
Decommissioned | December 1960 |
In service | Returned to the Royal Navy, 27 March 1946 |
Fate | Scrapped, 5 December 1968 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Fiji-class light cruiser |
Displacement | 8,631 long tons (8,770 t) (standard) |
Length | 555 ft 6 in (169.3 m) |
Beam | 62 ft (18.9 m) |
Draught | 19 ft 10 in (6 m) |
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Propulsion | 4 shafts; 4 geared steam turbine sets |
Speed | 32.25 knots (59.73 km/h; 37.11 mph) |
Range | 6,250 nmi (11,580 km; 7,190 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 733 (peacetime), 900 (wartime) |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × seaplanes |
Aviation facilities | 1 × catapult, 2 × hangars |
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