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Name: COLOSSUS
Type: Aircraft Carrier
Keel: 01/06/1942
Launched: 30/09/1943
Completed: 16/12/1944
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 55
Dimensions: 13190disp - 18040disp, 630.0 x 80.3 x 18.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, 40000shp
Engines by: Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 25.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 6 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 21 x 1 x 40mm AA, 12 x 1 x 20mm AA guns;
48 x aircraft, 1 x catapult
History:
16/12/1944 British Royal Navy
1946 Government of France; renamed ARROMANCHES
1978 Broken up
Comments: A Light Fleet Carrier of the COLOSSUS Class
1946: On loan to the Government of France
1951: Purchased by the Government of France
1957: Fitted with an angled flight deck
1968: Converted to a helicopter carrier for 24 x helicopters
22/01/1974: Decommissioned
1978: Broken up at Toulon


Above photo as COLOSSUS is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as COLOSSUS is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as COLOSSUS is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as COLOSSUS is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as COLOSSUS is copyright of Mark Teadham

Above photo as ARROMANCHES is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as ARROMANCHES is courtesy of Photoship