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===''Ceylon'' group=== * {{HMS|Ceylon|C30|2}} β Was deployed to the Far East for much of World War II, and was heavily involved in the Korean War. She was decommissioned in 1960, and subsequently sold to Peru, being renamed ''Coronel Bolognesi''. She was decommissioned in 1982. * {{HMS|Newfoundland|C59|2}} β She was torpedoed by the {{ship|Italian submarine|Ascianghi}}, receiving temporary repairs at [[Malta]], and full repairs at [[Boston Navy Yard]]. In 1944, the ship suffered an explosion at [[Alexandria]] while docked there. She sustained heavy damage, and suffered a number of casualties. She was in the Far East from 1945, supporting a number of operations there, and was present at the Japanese surrender, being one of the few British ships able to reach Japan in time. She sank the Egyptian frigate ''Domiat'', during the Suez operations, after the latter ship fired on her. She was sold to Peru in 1959, being renamed ''Almirante Grau'' and then ''Capitan Quinones'' in 1973. She was decommissioned in 1979 and scrapped in [[Japan]], the country that she and her crew fought against in World War II. * {{HMS|Uganda|C66|2}} β Escorted {{RMS|Queen Mary}} to [[Washington, D.C.]], with [[Winston Churchill]] embarked. Covered the invasion of [[Sicily]] in 1943. She was then hit by a German [[glide bomb]] that same year, causing significant damage and killing sixteen of her crew and wounding seven. Following repairs carried out in 1944 in the US she was recommissioned in the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] as HMCS ''Uganda''. She joined the [[British Pacific Fleet]] in 1945 taking part in a number of actions in the Far East. She was put in reserve in 1947 but recommissioned as HMCS ''Quebec'' for service in the [[Korean War]]. The ship was scrapped in 1961.
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