HMS Fiji was the lead ship of her class of 11 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the Second World War. Completed in mid-1940, she was...

known as Fiji class HMS Fiji (58), vessel of the above class Fiji Airways, the flag carrier airline of Fiji Fiji Water, a bottled water company Fiji, Saudi...

Ferry (1956) HMS Fernie (L11) HMS Fiji (58) HMS Forth (A187) HMS Fortune (H70) HMS Foxhound (1909) HMS Foxhound (H69) SS Franconia (1923) HMS Garth (L20) MV Glenfinlas (1966)...

A Rowley Light cruisers HMS Gloucester (62) - Capt. Henry A Rowley, sunk 22 May 1941 with the loss of 722 crew HMS Fiji (58) - Capt. PBRW William-Powlett...

battlecruiser 6 carriers 15 cruisers 114 destroyers 24 submarines Italian forces sank 58 warships, including: 6 cruisers 15 destroyers 37 submarines Japanese forces...

Mexican Navy Caldwell 58, an open cluster Choriocarcinoma Douglas C-58 Bolo, an American military aircraft HMS Fiji (C58), a Fiji-class light cruiser of...

HMS Jamaica, a Fiji-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, was named after the island of Jamaica, which was a British Crown Colony when she was built in the...

a tender for HMS Clio. She was later used for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific and also for hydrographic surveys of Fiji and Australia...

The Fiji-class cruisers were a class of eleven light cruisers of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service throughout the Second World War. Each ship of...

Archaeology. Rudder from HMS Bounty Forks used in cannibalistic practices Fijian raft Mural at Fiji Museum Ratu Finau (1913) - Fiji's last waqa tabus (double-hulled...

Herald carried out a survey of the Australian coast and Fiji Islands, continuing the mission of HMS Rattlesnake. The naturalists on the voyage were John...

owned by Sir Donald Gosling, is named after HMS Leander, the first naval vessel on which he served. In 2020 Fiji commissioned the RFNS Savenaca, a patrol...

material from the earliest Polynesian settlers, as well as artefacts from HMS Bounty. The museum collection was first located within the school; it transferred...

blackbirding trade. HMS Rosario, under Captain George Palmer, managed to intercept a blackbirding ship loaded with Islanders at Fiji. Daphne under command...

The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher...

national significance as outlined in Fiji's Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. Captain William Bligh (formerly of HMS Bounty) passed between the islands...

during the Second World War. They were designed as a modified version of the Fiji class incorporating war modifications and authorised in 1941. However, in...

HMS Mauritius, pennant C80, was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship was built by Swan Hunter, Newcastle upon Tyne. She was named after...

and Bengore Head, but the escort vessels responded. The British corvette, HMS Aubrietia, located the U-boat with ASDIC (sonar). Aubrietia and British destroyer...

area was not completely isolated; later, voyagers from Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji introduced some Polynesian and Melanesian cultural aspects, respectively...

is an archipelago of about 20 volcanic islands in the Western Division of Fiji, with an approximate total area of 135 square kilometres (52 sq mi). The...

HMS York was the lead ship of her class of two heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She mostly served on the North America and West...

HMS Triumph was a Royal Navy Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier. She served in the Korean War and later, after reconstruction, as a support ship...

culture reached the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and New Caledonia. From there, they settled Tonga and Samoa by 900 to 800...

northern Vanua Levu and of Yandua Island. Before departing Fijian waters on 21 October, HMS Hydra took part in celebrations to mark the centenary of the...

HMS Ladybird was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched in 1916. This class are also referred to as "large China gunboats". Originally built...

Pacific Studies, Suva, Fiji. Maude, H.C., & Maude, H.E. (Eds.). (1994). An anthology of Gilbertese oral tradition. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies...

Tonga–Kermadec Islands volcanic arc, a subduction zone extending from New Zealand to Fiji. On the Volcanic Explosivity Index scale, the eruption was rated at least...

Sinking Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine HMS Barham Association Website HMS Barham Archived 21 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, British...

impacted Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. December 30, 1873 – January 6, 1874 – A tropical cyclone impacted Vanuatu and Fiji. January 14–15, 1874 – HMS Renard...