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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kukku baba" data-source="post: 8486376" data-attributes="member: 249844">HMS Ceylon kiyana War Ship ekka thama meka. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/nerd.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":nerd:" title="Nerd    :nerd:" data-shortname=":nerd:" />   podi wistarayak hoya gatha may ship ekka gana : Built by <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Alexander_Stephen_and_Sons" target="_blank">Stephens</a> at <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Govan" target="_blank">Govan</a> and launched on 30 July 1942, she was completed on 13 July 1943. After two months in the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Home_Fleet" target="_blank">Home Fleet</a> she was transferred to the 4th Cruiser Squadron, with the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eastern_Fleet" target="_blank">Eastern Fleet</a> and took part in many carrier raids, bombardments and patrols against Japanese-held territory, including <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Operation_Cockpit" target="_blank">Operations Cockpit</a>, <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Operation_Meridian" target="_blank">Meridian</a> and <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Operation_Diplomat" target="_blank">Diplomat</a>. In November 1944 she joined the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/British_Pacific_Fleet" target="_blank">British Pacific Fleet</a> and sailed from <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Trincomalee" target="_blank">Trincomalee</a> on 16 January, taking part in a raid on Pankalan Bradan en route. By May 1945, however, she was back in the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Indian_Ocean" target="_blank">Indian Ocean</a>, shelling the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Nicobar_Islands" target="_blank">Nicobar Islands</a>, and remained in that theatre until the end of the war. In October 1945 she returned to the UK for refit and lay-up.<img src="http://www.naval-history.net/Photo06clCeylon1NPMarkTeadham.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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