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HMS Uganda |
Type: |
Light Cruiser |
Class: |
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Builder: |
Vickers Armstrongs Ltd. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England |
Pennant Number: |
66 |
Ordered: |
March 1, 1939 |
Commissioned: |
January 3, 1943 |
Keel Laid: |
July 20, 1939 |
Decommissioned: |
N/A |
Launched: |
August 7, 1941 |
Stricken: |
N/A |
Fate: |
Scrapped in Osaka, Japan in 1961.
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Notes |
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Oct. 21, 1944: |
Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy. |
Aug. 1945: |
Voted "Out of the war" by her crew while in the Pacific and recalled to Canada. Uganda was the only Canadian ship to do so during the war. |
Aug. 1, 1947: |
Paid off into reserve. |
Jan. 14, 1952: |
Recommissioned in RCN and renamed Quebec. |
June 15, 1956: |
Decommissioned. |
Builder's Data |
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Page published Aug. 24, 2007 |