NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Vengeance	R71		Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK	16.11.1942	23.2.1944	15.1.1945 // 13.11.1952	to UK 6.1955

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	13190
Displacement full, t	18040
Length, m	192 pp 211.2 - 211.8 oa
Breadth, m	24.4 wl
Draught, m	7.09 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	40000
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	oil 3196
Endurance, nm(kts)	12000(14)
Armament	12 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 6 x 4 - 40/39 RP.50 Mk 7, 37 aircraft (Sea Fury, Firefly fighters)
Electronic equipment	type 79B, type 281B radars, type 144 sonar
Complement	1300

Air group

Year	Fighters	Helicopters
1952	12 Sea Fury FB.11, 12 Firefly FR.4/5, AS.5/6	3 Sycamore HR.50

Standard scale images

Aircraft facilities

 (fd - 5,131m², ha - 2,142m² / 11,355m³): Flight deck: 210.3x24.4m; hangar: 135.6x15.8x 5.3m. Two lifts: 13.7x10.4m, 6.8t. 1 catapult BH-III (6.4t plane was launched at 122km/h). Aircraft fuel stowage: 448,200l.

Project history

The British Colossus class light fleet carrier Vengeance was loaned to Australia during 1952-55.

Protection

There were mantlets around aircraft torpedoes warheads rooms only. Their thickness was 10mm. Longitudinal watertight bulkheads covered the machinery.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Taken over by the RAN on 13 November 1952, the ship saw active service until defence cuts in late 1954 reduced the ship to a training role. She was intended as a stop-gap until the commissioning of Melbourne and was returned to the RN in June 1955.