Editing Fiji-class cruiser (section)

==Service==
They served with distinction during the [[Second World War]]. ''Jamaica'' took part in a number of operations, including driving off the heavy cruisers {{ship|German cruiser|Admiral Hipper||2}} and [[German cruiser Deutschland|''Lützow'']] in 1942, the sinking of the [[battleship]] {{ship|German battleship|Scharnhorst||2}} in 1943, and escorting carrier air attacks on the battleship {{ship|German battleship|Tirpitz||2}} in 1944. {{HMS|Fiji|C58|2}} was sunk in 1941 by German aircraft during the [[battle of Crete]]. {{HMS|Trinidad|C46|2}} was lost on Arctic convoy duty in 1942; sailing at reduced speed due to damage in a surface action earlier she was set on fire by German air attack and scuttled. The survivors continued in service after the war, taking part in further actions, such as the [[Korean War]].

{{HMS|Ceylon|C30|2}} and  {{HMS|Newfoundland|C59|2}} were sold to [[Peru]] in 1959 becoming  the ''Coronel Bolognesi'', and ''Almirante Grau'' respectively. These two  were decommissioned by 1982. {{HMS|Nigeria|60|2}} was sold to [[India]] who had it reconstructed in 1954–7 to the same standard as ''Newfoundland''. As {{INS|Mysore|C60|6}}, the ship was heavily used from the time of her transfer, seeing action in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|1971 war with Pakistan]],<ref>A. Preston.'' Warships of the World''. Janes. London (1980) p87.</ref> and later converted to a harbour training ship in 1979. She was decommissioned by 1984 and then scrapped in 1985, and as such she was the longest-lived (41 years) member of her class.

All ships of the ''Fiji'' class were decommissioned from active service with the Royal Navy by 1962 and began being sold for scrap, though ''Bermuda'' was fully operational during 1961 and sometimes ventured to sea in 1962 as flagship of the [[Reserve Fleet (United Kingdom)|Reserve Fleet]]. ''Gambia'' had been reduced to reserve in December 1960.

During the 1950s the larger Town-class cruisers were usually regarded as more habitable and comfortable in patrolling in the tropics and Far East, although being older their operational use generally ceased by 1958 and went for scrap the following year except for {{HMS|Sheffield|C24|2}} (which had at sea deployments as a reserve flagship until late 1960 and was then, maintained as a reserve headquarters ship) and {{HMS|Belfast|C35|2}} which stayed in active seaworthy service until 1963. ''Sheffield'' and ''Belfast'' were the last of the wartime commissioned cruisers considered capable of reactivation for GFS and were in semi maintained reserve until the election of the Labour Government in 1964, which immediately decided to scrap them, pending short term use as accommodation ships and consideration for historical preservation.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

The last ''Fiji''-class cruisers were seriously deteriorating due to being in an unmaintained extended reserve status many years. ''Gambia'' was considered as an alternative for use as the London museum ship, as the ship's condition was more original than ''Belfast'', but ''Gambia'' was sold for scrap in 1968, because the state of the ship made it more expensive to preserve than ''Belfast''.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} .