Construction
She was one of the Ceylon sub-class (the second group of three ships built in 1939) of the Crown Colony-class cruisers, and built by Vickers-Armstrong at their Walker yard. Uganda was launched on 7 August 1941 and commissioned on 3 January 1943.
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