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Flag of Peru (state).svg
State Flag of Peru.
HMS Ceylon depth charge.jpg
IWM caption : A depth charge explodes after it had been dropped from HMS CEYLON. The ship had just made a call at Colombo the capital of Ceylon.
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(c) Photo: Royal Navy/MOD, OGL v1.0
HMS Ceylon, a Fiji class cruiser, was built by Stephens at Govan and completed in 1943. She served in the Pacific until 1945 and in the fifties was engaged in the Korean War, carrying out a number of bombardments. She paid off in 1959 and was sold to the Peruvian Navy, becoming their Coronel Bolognesi, and serving until 1980.
  • Organization: Royal Navy
HMS Ceylon.jpg
British light cruiser HMS CEYLON at anchor in the Clyde.