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WARRIOR light aircraft carrier (1946)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Warrior R31   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 12.12.1942 20.5.1944 14.3.1946 to UK 3.1948 (Warrior)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

13350

Displacement full, t

18300

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

19 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 6 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 37 aircraft (Seafire, Firefly fighters)

Electronic equipment

type 79B, type 281B, 6x type 282 radars, type 144 sonar

Complement1300


Air group


Year 3.1946
Fighters ~18 Seafire F.15, ~18 Firefly FR.1/FR.4/AS.5


Standard scale images


<i>Warrior</i> 1946
Warrior 1946


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 design of light aircraft carrier with 13200t displacement was ready in 1942. Special attention was given to adaptability to manufacture and cheapness: such ships were supposed to build in a large batch and in the short time. As a whole Colossus has been constructed rather rational. Protection was not provided by the design, except for the steel 10mm plating covering aviation magazines.

Hull was designed on norms of merchant shipbuilding, without built in underwater protection, however thus had rational sectioning into compartments and stored unsinkability at torpedo hit into main transverse bulkheads area. Damage tolerance raise was promoted and by arrangement of machinery en echelon, holding 4 holds (2 engine and 2 boiler rooms).

Protection

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

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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