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VENGEANCE light aircraft carrier (1945/1952)


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

Complement1300


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


<i>Vengeance</i> 1952
Vengeance 1952


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.