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Career (UnitedKingdom)
Name: Builder: Laid down: Launched: Commissioned: Fate: HMS Warrior Harland and Wolff 12 December 1942 20 May 1944 2 April 1945 Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy
Career (Canada)
Name: Commissioned: Decommissioned: Fate: HMCS Warrior 14 March 1946 23 March 1948 Returned to Royal Navy
Career (Argentina)
Name: Commissioned: Decommissioned: Fate: ARA Independencia (V-1) 8 July 1959 1970 Sold for scrap somewhere in Argentina in 1971
General characteristics
Class & type: Displacement: Length: Beam: Draught: Colossus class 18,300tons (later 18,400tons) 695ft (212m) 80ft (24m) 23ft (7.0m)
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Four boiler, twin screw steam turbine. 40,000Horsepower (30MW) 25kn (46km/h) 12,000nmi (22,000km) at 14kn (26km/h) 1,075 to 1,300 6 quad QF 2 pounder naval guns AA 32 20mm anti-aircraft cannon 48 - F9F Panther and F9F Cougar, F4U Corsair, SNJ-5Cs Texan, Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Trackers, de Havilland Vampire
HMS Warrior (R31) was a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1946 to 1948 (as HMCS Warrior), the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1958, and the Argentine Navy from 1959 to 1969 (as ARA Independencia (V-1)).
History
Built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, she was originally to be called HMS Brave; the Royal Navy had originally intended to rush her into service for operations in the Indian Ocean during World War II, thus she was built without heaters for some onboard equipment since heat was unnecessary in tropical operations.
ARA Independencia.
version Fennec built in France. After the carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2) entered service in 1969, Independencia moved to the reserves (1970). She was scrapped in 1971.
References
Notes
[1] Korea Coalition Warfare (http:/ / www. airforcehistory. hq. af. mil/ Publications/ fulltext/ Korea_Coalition_Warfare. pdf)
Bibliography
J.D.F Keely and E.C. Russell: A History Canadian Naval Aviation, 1918-1962. Published by the Naval Historical Section of the Canadian Forces Headquarters, Department of National Defence, Ottawa 1965, pp.3946. (http:// www.forces.gc.ca/dhh/collections/books/engraph/details_e.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=37&cat=6) Ireland, Bernard. The Illustrated Guide to Aircraft Carriers of the World. Hermes House, London, 2005. ISBN 1-84477-747-2 Journal La Patrie, Montreal, Quebec. Page 1, April 1, 1946. Armi da guerra, De Agostini, Novara, Vol. 11, p.285 (Italian edition of War Machine, Aerospace Press)
External links
Maritimequest HMS Warrior photo gallery (http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/ pages/aircraft_carriers/hms_warrior_31.htm) ARA Independencia (http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Armada Argentina/Portaaviones/Warrior1953.htm)
(Spanish)
My experience aboard the HMCS Warrior by Lieutenant Robert Grenier (http://www.aircraft-carriers.webs. com)
License
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