HMS Perseus (R51)
Service
- as Perseus? — May 19582,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Perseus
- Pennant / hull number
- R51
- Namesake
- Perseus
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Ordered
- 14 March 1942
- Laid down
- 1 January 1943
- Launched
- 26 March 1944
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, May 1958 (1958)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 12,265 long tons (12,462 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 16,500 long tons (16,765 t)
- Length
- 211.84 m (695 ft)
- Beam
- 24.38 m (80 ft)
- Draught
- 7.01 m (23 ft)
- Speed
- 25 knots (46.3 km/h, 28.8 mph)
- Range
- 12,000 nmi (22,224 km)
- Complement
- 1,076
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Perseus was a aircraft carrier of the Colossus-class aircraft carrier aircraft maintenance ship built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R51. She was named for Perseus. Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle-upon-Tyne laid her keel on 1 January 1943. She was launched on 26 March 1944.
She was one of seven ships of her class. The Centaur-class aircraft carrier followed.
Displacement was 12,265 long tons standard and 16,500 long tons at full load. She measured 211.8 m (695 ft) long with a beam of 24.4 m (80 ft). Her designed speed was 25 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,076. Her main battery was of 40 mm (1.6 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in May 1958.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts
- 2 × Parsons geared steam turbine sets
- 4 × Admiralty water-tube boilers
- Power
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × 4 - 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
- 19 × 1 - 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns
- Aircraft
- None
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Perseus (R51) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy photographer — This photograph FL 8606 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons