HMS Pioneer (R76)
Service
- as Pioneer? — 19542,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Pioneer
- Pennant / hull number
- R76
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
- Ordered
- 7 August 1942
- Laid down
- 2 December 1942
- Launched
- 20 May 1944
- Decommissioned
- 1954
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, September 1954 (1954)
- 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 Pioneer was a aircraft carrier of the Colossus-class aircraft carrier aircraft-maintenance ship of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R76. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness on 2 December 1942. She was launched on 20 May 1944.
Her class ran to seven ships. The Centaur-class aircraft carrier followed.
She displaced 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 19 40 mm (1.6 in) guns. Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1954.
She was broken up for scrap in September 1954.
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 × geared steam turbine sets
- Power
- 4 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × quadruple 2-pdr 40 mm AA guns
- 19 × single 40 mm Bofors AA guns
- Aircraft
- None
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Pioneer (R76) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 017459 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons