H.M.S. Uganda
66
1943
(Neptun 1140a)
- Class: modified Fiji - 3 cruisers of 1939
- Displacement: 8,800 tons
- Dimensions: 538 (pp) 555.5 (oa) x 62 x 16.5 ft
- Machinery: 4-shaft geared turbines, SHP 72,500 = 33 knots
- Armor: Main belt 3.25in, deck 2in, turrets 2in, DCT 4in
- Armament: 9-6in (3x3), 8-4in AA (4x2), 12-2pdr AA (3x4), 12-20mm AA (6x2) guns; 6-21in TT (2x3)
- Complement: 730
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong (Walker)
- Laid Down: 20 Jul 1939
- Launched: 7 Aug 1941
- Completed: 3 Jan 1943
- Service: Home fleet 1943, Mediterranean fleet 1943-44. Badly damaged by German glider bomb at Salerno. After refit in the U.S.A., she was transferred to Canada and commissioned as HMCS Uganda on 21 Oct 1944. Joined the British Pacific fleet 1945, screening TF57 off Formosa, Okinawa, and Japan to Aug 1945. Postwar served as a training ship. Renamed Quebec on 14 Jan 1952. Paid off 1956; scrapped in Japan 1961.
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