Royal Navy — Escort carrier class
Nairana-class escort carrier
Nairana class escort carrier
The class in numbers
- 3 Planned
- 3 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Escort carrier
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1941–1944
- Preceded by
- HMS Activity
- Succeeded by
- Long Island-class escort carrier
- Builders
- HMS Nairana, John Brown
- HMS Campania, Harland and Wolff
- HMS Vindex
- Swan Hunter
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 12,450 long tons (12,650 t)
- Length
- 164.59 m (540 ft)
- Speed
- 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
- Complement
- 700
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 2 4 inch DP,AA guns on twin mount
- 16 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons on twin mounts
- 16 2 Pounder Pom Pom on quadruple mounts
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Campania (D48) | D48 | 1944 | Scrapped 1955 |
| HMS Nairana (D05) | D05 | 1943 | Scrapped 1971 |
| HMS Vindex (D15) | D15 | 1943 | Scrapped 1947 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Nairana-class escort carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.