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Audacity

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Empire Audacity (ex-Sinbad, ex-Hannover), 7.1941- Audacity	D10	765	Bremer Vulcan, Germany // Blyth SB, Cowpen Quay	1938	29.3.1939	5.1939 // 20.6.1941	sunk 21.12.1941

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	10230
Displacement full, t	11000
Length, m	142.4
Breadth, m	17.1 wl
Draught, m	6.58
No of shafts	1
Machinery	2 MAN diesels
Power, h. p.	5200
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	diesel oil 649
Endurance, nm(kts)	12000(14.5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 1 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 4 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 6 aircraft (Martlet fighters)
Electronic equipment	type 79B radar
Complement	210

Air group

Year	12/1941
Fighters	4 Martlet

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Aircraft facilities

 (fd - 2,566m², ha - 0m² / 0m³): Flight deck: 137.2 x 18.3m. There were no hangar, catapults and elevators. Planes were stored at flight deck. Aviation fuel stowage was 45,500l.

Project history First escort aircraft carrier of Royal Navy was converted from German refrigerator vessel Hannover (5537BRT), captured 7.3.1940 by British cruiser Dunedin, comm

 First escort aircraft carrier of Royal Navy was converted from German refrigerator vessel Hannover (5537BRT), captured 7.3.1940 by British cruiser Dunedin, commissioned as transport Sinbad. Later re-rated as ocean boarding vessel. The decision to convert her to escort aircraft carrier intended for "trade protection" was accepted 2.1.1941. Converted in 1 - 6.1941.

Ship structure was extreme simplified. It was not provided hangar, elevators, neither catapults, nor islands on her. Aircrafts (only 6 planes) were stored simply on a flight deck. Ship stowed 3000t of solid ballast.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Audacity was twice torpedoed by German submarine U751 in the evening 21.12.1941. Carrier lost speed after hit of the first torpedo, after 70 minutes two more torpedoes hit the ship, she has broken apart and sunk. 72 people were lost.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.