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Navy	The Royal New Zealand Navy
Type	Light cruiser
Class	Fiji
Pennant	48
Built by	Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend
Ordered
Laid down	24 Jul, 1939
Launched	30 Nov, 1940
Commissioned	22 Sep, 1943
End service	27 Mar, 1946
Loss position

History	Transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy on 22 September 1943. Returned to the Royal Navy on 27 March 1946. Decommissioned in December 1960. Scrapped by Ward, Inverkeithing arriving on 5 December 1968. Commanding Officers: Capt. Maurice James Mansergh, CBE, RN 25 November 1941 – 22 September 1943 Capt. Newton James Wallop William-Powlett, DSC, RN 22 September 1943 – 15 March 1945 Capt. Ralph Alan Bevan Edwards, CBE, RN 15 March 1945 – August 1945 A/Capt. Christopher Michael Jacob, DSC, RN August 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List
Former name	HMS Gambia

HMNZS Gambia (48)