HMS Colossus (R15)
Service
- as Colossus16 December 1944 — 1946260 days of the war
- as Arromanches1946 — 1974
- Name
- HMS Colossus
- Pennant / hull number
- R15
- Namesake
- Colossus
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker
- Launched
- 30 September 1943
- Commissioned
- 16 December 1944
- Decommissioned
- 1974
- Fate
- Scrapped in Toulon, France 1978 (1978)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 591 long tons (600 t)
- Length
- 212 m (695.5 ft)
- Beam
- 24.4 m (80.1 ft)
- Draught
- 7.2 m (23.6 ft)
- Speed
- 25 knots (46.3 km/h, 28.8 mph)
- Range
- 12,000 nmi (22,224 km)
- Complement
- 1,300
HMS Colossus was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R15. She was named for Colossus. She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker. She entered service on 16 December 1944, having been launched on 30 September 1943.
Her class ran to seven ships. The Centaur-class aircraft carrier followed.
She displaced 591 long tons. She measured 212 m (696 ft) long with a beam of 24.4 m (80 ft). Her designed speed was 25 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,300.
She carried 48 aircraft.
She served with the Royal Navy as Colossus until 1946. She then passed to the Marine Nationale, serving as Arromanches from 1946. She was in commission for 260 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1974.
She was broken up for scrap in 1978.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Steam Turbines (4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines)
- Aircraft
- 48
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Colossus (R15) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Michkar — Own work — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons