NAVYPEDIA

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
Complement	1300

Air group

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

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 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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