After reserve service and use with the stoker training establishment HMS Imperieuse, Newfoundland received a twenty-month reconstruction at Plymouth. She became flagship of the Fourth Cruiser Squadron on the East Indies Station. During the 1953 Hartal civil-disobedience campaign in Ceylon, the country's cabinet met aboard the cruiser as a secure location. After a Singapore refit she shelled Malayan National Liberation Army targets near Penang. A postwar cruiser could therefore serve as a headquarters, political refuge, and gunfire platform during the same commission.
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Newfoundland's reconstruction and postwar East Indies duties
An extensive reconstruction prepared Newfoundland for duties ranging from crisis refuge in Ceylon to bombardment during the Malayan Emergency.