HMS Warrior (R31)

12 Dec 1942

Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	20 May 1944
Commissioned:	14 March 1946
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Broken up
Struck:	from Argentinean Navy 1971
General Characteristics
Displacement:	18,300 tons
Length:	695 feet
Beam:
Draught:
Propulsion:
Speed:	25 knots
Range:	12,000 nmiles at 14 knots
Complement:	1300 including air group
Armament:	24 x 2 pdr AA; 32 x 20mm
Aircraft:	48
Motto:

HMS Warrior was a Royal Navy aircraft carrier, pennant R71 (later CVL20), of the Colossus class.

She was built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, and originally to be called HMS Brave. Launched on May 20 1944, she was immediately transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion on January 24 1946 and named HMCS Warrior. She was returned to Britain in 1948 and took part in Operation Grapple, the first British Hydrogen bomb tests. She was sold to Argentina in 1958, and renamed ARA Independencia. She was scrapped in 1971.

General Characteristics

• Displacement: 18,300 tons
• Length: 695 ft (212 m) overall
• Beam: 80 ft (24.4 m)
• Draft: 23 ft (7.0 m)
• Complement: 1300
• Armour: None
• Armament: Six quad 2 pound (907 g) anti-aircraft guns, thirty-two 20 mm antiaricraft cannon, 48 aircraft
• Propulsion: Twin screw stream turbine. 40,000 shp (30 MW)
• Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h) maximum

Colossus-class aircraft carrier

Colossus | Glory | Ocean | Vengeance | Pioneer | Venerable | Warrior | Perseus | Theseus | Triumph

List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy