History
Name:HMS Warrior
Builder:Harland and Wolff
Laid down:12 December 1942
Launched:20 May 1944
Commissioned:2 April 1945
Identification:Pennant number: R31
Fate:Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy
Name:HMCS Warrior
Commissioned:14 March 1946
Decommissioned:23 March 1948
Motto:"Haul together"
Fate:Returned to Royal Navy
Badge:Azure, the head and shoulders of a Viking proper wearing the typical Viking helmet argent, wings or, coat of mail argent trimmed or
Name:HMS Warrior
Commissioned:November 1948
Decommissioned:February 1958
Fate:Sold to Argentina in 1958
Name:ARA Independencia
Commissioned:8 July 1959
Decommissioned:1970
Identification:Pennant number: V-1
Fate:Scrapped in Argentina in 1971
General characteristics as built
Class and type:Colossus-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:18,300 long tons (18,600 t)
Length:
  • 630 ft 0 in (192.0 m) pp
  • 695 ft 0 in (211.8 m) oa
Beam:80 ft 0 in (24.4 m)
Draught:23 ft 3 in (7.1 m)
Propulsion:
  • 4 × Admiralty 3-drum type boilers
  • 2 × screw
  • 2 × Parsons geared turbines
  • 40,000 shp (30 MW)
Speed:25 knots (46 km/h)
Range:12,000 nmi (22,224 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement:1,300 (max)
Armament:
  • 4 × twin 40 mm Bofors guns
  • 20 × single 40 mm Bofors guns