Warrior 1946
| 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) |
|
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 |
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.
| Year | Fighters |
| 3.1946 | ~18 Seafire F.15, ~18 Firefly FR.1/FR.4/AS.5 |
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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