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HMS Gambia |
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HMS Gambia Laid Down : 24th July 1939 Launched : 30th November 1940 Completed : 21st February 1942 Type : Cruiser Class : Fiji Builder : Swan Hunter Country : UK Pennants : 48, C48 Fate : Scrapped 1968 |
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HMS Gambia, at breakers, March 1969. | HMS Gambia entering Maltas Grand Harbour sometime in the 1940s | HMS Gambia. (P) |
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LST3033 Gambia is behind. Plymouth, 8th July 1948. | HMS Ark Royal with HMS Cumberland and HMS Gambia. |
Timeline Entries : | |||
1906 - Renamed from Boscawen 30th November 1940 - Launched 30th November 1940 - Pennant Number 48 21st February 1942 - Completed November 1942 - Deployed to the Far East May 1943 - Returned to the UK September 1943 - Loaned to New Zealand 12th November 1943 - Sailed Scapa Flow 16th April 1944 - Task Force 69 16th April 1944 - Sailed Trincomalee 27th August 1945 - At Sagami Bay 1946 - Returned to the Royal Navy 9th April 1947 - Arrived Kure 15th August 1947 - Sailed Kure March 1950 - Recommissioned 3rd April 1950 - Arrived Gibraltar 11th April 1950 - Arrived Malta 13th May 1950 - Arrived Benghazi 29th May 1950 - At Plymouth 7th June 1950 - Arrived Alexandria 7th June 1950 - Arrived Malta 18th June 1950 - Arrived Port Said 21st June 1950 - Arrived Beirut 24th June 1950 - Arrived Famagusta 1st July 1950 - Arrived Athens 13th July 1950 - Arrived Marmarice 22nd July 1950 - Arrived Malta 29th August 1950 - Sailed Malta 30th August 1950 - Arrived Thormina 1st September 1950 - Arrived Taranto 15th September 1950 - Arrived Toulon 19th September 1950 - Arrived Marseilles 23rd September 1950 - Arrived Anzio 10th October 1950 - Arrived Trieste 17th October 1950 - Arrived Malta 3rd January 1951 - Arrived Dragomesti 10th February 1951 - Arrived Bizrata 23rd February 1951 - Arrived Gibraltar 4th March 1951 - Arrived Mauritius 2nd May 1951 - Arrived Bahrain 25th October 1951 - At Port Said 10th November 1951 - At Port Said 24th November 1951 - Capt. L.F. Durnford Slater in Command 24th November 1951 - Arrived Malta 14th December 1951 - Sailed Malta for Port Said 8th January 1952 - At Port Said 16th January 1953 - Searched for Crashed Lancaster off Malta 15th June 1953 - Participated in 1953 Coronation Review 12th August 1953 - Diverted to Greece to aid the earthquake victims 14th August 1953 - Assisted Greek troops to put out raging fires on Zante 3rd May 1954 - At Malta for the visit of Queen Elizabeth 6th September 1954 - Sailed Malta for Summer Cruise 6th September 1954 - Flagship of Vice-Admiral J.P.L. Reid 4th October 1954 - Arrived Malta 8th October 1954 - Capt. W. Evershed in Command 8th October 1954 - Sailed Malta with the Emperor of Ethiopia 14th October 1954 - Arrived Portsmouth 15th October 1954 - Review in the Presence of the Emperor of Ethiopia 1957 - Captain E. T. L. Dunsterville in Command 21st May 1957 - Joined Home Fleet at Invergordon 27th May 1957 - Review of the Home Fleet in Cromarty Firth by H.M. Queen 28th May 1957 - Visit of H.M. The Queen 22nd July 1957 - Arrived Bergen 28th July 1957 - Sailed Bergen 16th September 1957 - Sailed the Clyde for N.A.T.O. Exercise 17th October 1957 - Sailed Chatham 21st November 1957 - Arrived Gibraltar. Sailed same day 26th November 1957 - At Port Said 28th November 1957 - Arrived Aden 1st December 1957 - Recommissioned 6th December 1957 - Arrived Bahrain 10th December 1957 - Sailed Bahrain 16th December 1957 - Arrived Aden January 1958 - Commenced Indian Cruise 30th January 1958 - Sailed Trincomalee for Madras 30th January 1958 - Arrived Aden March 1958 - Completed Indian Cruise 3rd March 1958 - Sailed Colombo 5th March 1958 - Arrived Male 9th March 1958 - Sailed Male 15th March 1958 - Arrived Bombay 14th May 1958 - At Trincomalee for Commencement of Exercise "Jet 58" July 1958 - Commenced East African Cruise 5th July 1958 - At Trincomalee for Completion of Exarcise "Jet 58" 9th July 1958 - Arrived Diego Garcia. Sailed same day 13th July 1958 - Arrived Rodriguez 15th July 1958 - Sailed Rodriguez 16th July 1958 - Arrived Mauritius. Sailed same day 18th July 1958 - Arrived Mombassa 19th July 1958 - Sailed Mombassa 22nd July 1958 - Arrived Bahrain August 1958 - Completed East African Cruise 24th August 1958 - Sailed Bahrain for the UK 24th August 1958 - Sailed Bahrain 26th August 1958 - At Muscat 2nd September 1958 - Sailed Aden 7th September 1958 - Through Suez 10th September 1958 - Arrived Malta 12th September 1958 - Sailed Malta 18th September 1958 - Arrived Chatham 24th November 1959 - At Gibraltar December 1959 - Arrived Portsmouth 14th February 1960 - Arrived Male 14th February 1960 - Capt. W.J. Munn in Command 4th March 1960 - Arrived Port Louis Mauritius with aid after Cyclone 21st November 1960 - Arrived Rotterdam 25th November 1960 - Sailed Rotterdam 1968 - Scrapped |
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