The Crown Colony class cruisers (1939) were designed as smaller "Town" class according to the second London treaty of 1936, shortened, narrower and with a transom stern to gain weight. They were built in two groups, the Fiji and Ceylon sub-group (last completed in July 1943). With the same armament, but slightly slower, they were less popular than the Town class and proved not upgradable on the long run. However some saw quite a distinguished service, like HMS Jamaica, driving off Admiral Hipper and Lützow in 1942 and participating in the sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst in 1943. Fiji was lost during the Battle of Crete, and Trinidad in the Barents sea. The others saw cold war service under various flags, until 1986 for the last one.
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