HMS Venerable (R63)

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HMS Venerable was laid down at Cammel Laird in Birkenhead on 3 December 1942. The ship was launched just over a year later, and then commissioned on 17 January 1945. As with others of the class completed just before the ending of hostilities, Venerable immediately headed to the Far East to join the 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron of the British Pacific Fleet. After hostilities were over, Venerable repatriated prisoners of war to Canada and Australia, before returning to the UK.

In 1948, Venerable's short career in the Royal Navy came to an end, when it was sold to the Dutch. The ship recommissioned in the Dutch fleet as HMNLS Karel Doorman.