HMS Fiji

Type:
Light Cruiser
Class:
Builder:
John Brown & Co.
Clydebank, Scotland
Pennant Number:
58
Ordered:
December 20, 1937
Commissioned:
May 17, 1940
Keel Laid:
March 30, 1938
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
May 31, 1939
Stricken:


N/A
Fate:
Sunk May 22, 1941 by German aircraft during the Battle of Crete.

Location: Mediterranean Sea, 54 miles SW of Palarokhora, Crete.
(34.35N - 23.10E)

241 crewmen killed, 523 survivors picked up by HMS Kingston F-64 and HMS Kandahar F-28.




Notes:
Sept. 1, 1940:
Damaged by U-32 (torpedoed) in the North Atlantic NE of Ireland. Fiji was under repair
for six months following the attack.


Page revised Jan. 29, 2007