| Name: | NIGERIA |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 08/02/1938 |
| Launched: | 18/07/1939 |
| Completed: | 23/09/1940 |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 12 |
| Dimensions: | 8525disp - 10350disp, 538.0 x 62.0 x 16.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, 72500shp |
| Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 33.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 3 x 6.0ins, 4 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 4 x 2 x 2pdr AA, 4 x 4 x 0.5ins guns; |
| 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes; 2 x aircraft & 1 x catapult | |
| History: | |
| 23/09/1940 | British Royal Navy |
| 29/08/1957 | Government of India; renamed MYSORE |
| 20/08/1985 | Decommissioned |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | Member of the Fiji or Crown Colony class of light cruisers |
| 07/09/1941: Suffered bow damage in action off Norwegian coast, mine or collision | |
| Returned to the Tyne for repair & refit | |
| 12/08/1942: Torpedoed by Italian submarine AXUM, damaged & returned to Gibraltar | |
| 1943: Repaired in the USA & returned to service | |
| Believed to have been broken up |
Above photo as NIGERIA is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as NIGERIA is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as NIGERIA is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo as NIGERIA is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo as MYSORE is courtesy of Kim Dunstan