"Colossus" кластығы ұшақ тасушы кемесінің сипаттамасы

Colossus class aircraft carrier

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18,040 tons full load
|Ship length=695 feet (212 m)
|Ship beam=80 feet (24 m)
|Ship draught=23.5 feet (7 m)
|Ship propulsion=Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts,
|Ship speed=
|Ship range= at
|Ship endurance=
|Ship boats=
|Ship complement=1,076
|Ship sensors=
|Ship EW=
|Ship armament=*Initial:
6 × quadruple QF 2 pounder naval guns
19 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
1945:
6 × quadruple 2 pounder guns
8 × Bofors 40 mm guns
11 × Oerlikons
1952:
12 × Bofors
32 × Oerlikons
|Ship aircraft=30–40
|Ship aircraft facilities=
|Ship notes=Taken from: She was laid down on 16 November 1942, and launched on 23 February 1944. Despite this prediction, Vengeance had a service life of over 55 years.

Her initial armament consisted of six quadruple QF 2 pounder naval guns (known as pom poms) and 19 Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. These were completed by 21 May, when she was assigned to the 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron of the British Pacific Fleet. Following the end of the war Vengeance was ordered to Hong Kong, and on 3 September was used as the venue for the Japanese surrender of the territory. Vengeance remained in Eastern waters until 20 July 1946, when she departed for England.

In June 1951, following the receipt of advice that the Australian aircraft carrier would not be completed until at least March 1954, the Australian Defence Committee recommended that Australia request the RN loan a carrier to the RAN. The new predicted date of completion for Melbourne was 21 months later than previous predictions, on which the establishment of two carrier naval aviation in the RAN had been dependent. Several smaller modifications were approved and paid for by Australia, including the installation of additional aircrew accommodation. In order to provide personnel for the loaned carrier, the RAN had to place the light cruiser into reserve. She was recommissioned as an Australian ship on this date, and received the prefix HMAS. In late 1953, Vengeance was prepared for a deployment to Korea, to support the United Nations enforcement of the July 1953 armistice. The deployment did not go ahead: HMAS Sydney was sent instead. Two sailors were killed. On 3 April, while escorting Gothic to the Cocos Islands with the destroyers and accompanying, Vengeances ship's company assembled on the flight deck and positioned themselves to form the Queen's signature. After later seeing an aerial photograph of this, Her Majesty had a message sent to the carrier, saying "Thank you for the original forgery." On 5 April, after arriving at the Cocos Islands, Vengeance was involved in a collision with Bataan while the destroyer attempted to refuel from the carrier. In June 1954, Vengeance was removed from active service and reclassified as the RAN's primary training ship. The previous training ship, the cruiser , had been earmarked in mid 1953 to be decommissioned and scrapped, as modernising her would have been uneconomical. At the same time, the RAN was exploring avenues to reduce operating costs: the reduction of naval aviation from two active carriers to one would provide significant savings. The removal of Vengeance from active service, combined with the need to find a replacement training ship for Australia which was large enough to accommodate the large number of National Service trainees, saw the carrier placed in the training role. On 31 August, Vengeance accompanied Australia during the latter's final voyage before decommissioning. The carrier sailed to Japan in late October; her first departure from Australian waters while in RAN service.

In May 1955, Sydney assumed Vengeances training carrier duties as well as her own flagship and operation duties, while the latter carrier was prepared for the return to England. Vengeance left for the UK in June, stopping in Singapore to collect a squadron of RN helicopters. The personnel were used as the first ship's company of , which was commissioned on 28 October 1955. This was to allow the operation of jet aircraft, which were larger, faster, and heavier than the propeller aircraft previously operated by the carrier. The carrier was commissioned into the Marinha do Brasil (MB, Brazilian Navy) as NAeL Minas Gerais on 6 December 1960. As a result, Minas Gerais was required to embark two air groups: the Navy operated helicopters while the Air Force operated S 2 Tracker aircraft. Minas Gerais underwent another major refit from 1976 to 1981, during which her radar suite was updated, datalinks were installed, and the ship's life expectancy was increased to the 1990s. From July 1991 to October 1993, the carrier underwent another modernisation refit; the work included refurbishment of her propulsion system, upgrades to the command and control system and radars, and replacement of the ship's Bofors with Mistral surface to air missiles. In 1999, the MB acquired 20 A 4KU Skyhawks and 3 TA 4KU trainer aircraft from the Kuwait Air Force; the first time since the carrier's commissioning that Forca Aeronaval da Marinha (Brazilian Navy Aviation) had been permitted to own and operate fixed wing aircraft. At the time of her decommissioning, she was the oldest active aircraft carrier in the world (a title passed on to the 1961 commissioned Kitty Hawk). The carrier was marked for sale in 2002, and was actively sought after by British naval associations for return to England and preservation as a museum ship, although they were unable to raise the required money. Bidding reached £4 million before the auction was removed from the website under rules preventing the sale of military ordnance.