HMS Gambia

Type:
Light Cruiser
Class:
Builder:
Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Pennant Number:
48
Ordered:
March 1, 1939
Commissioned:
February 21, 1942
Keel Laid:
July 24, 1939
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
November 30, 1940
Stricken:


N/A
Fate:
Sold to T. W. Ward 1968 and scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland in 1969.




Notes:
Sept. 22, 1943:
Transferred to New Zealand.
Mar. 27, 1946:
Returned to Royal Navy.
Dec. 1960:
Decommissioned.


Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 29, 2007