History
Namesake:City of Sydney
Builder:HM Dockyard Devonport, England
Laid down:19 April 1943
Launched:30 September 1944
Commissioned:16 December 1948
Decommissioned:30 May 1958
Recommissioned:7 March 1962
Decommissioned:12 November 1973
Reclassified:
  • Training ship
  • (22 April 1955)
  • Fast troop transport
  • (7 March 1962)
Motto:"Thorough and Ready"
Nickname(s):
  • Vung Tau Ferry
  • (as fast troop transport)
Honours and
awards:
  • Battle honours:
  • Korea 1951–52
  • Malaysia 1964
  • Vietnam 1965–72
  • plus seven inherited honours
Fate:Sold for scrap in 1975
General characteristics as aircraft carrier
Class and type:Majestic-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:
  • 15,740 tons (standard)
  • 19,550 tons (deep)
Length:
  • 630 ft (190 m) between perpendiculars
  • 698 ft (213 m) overall
Beam:80 ft (24 m)
Draught:25 ft (7.6 m)
Propulsion:
  • 4 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
  • Parsons single reduction geared turbines
  • 2 shafts
  • 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Speed:24.8 knots (45.9 km/h; 28.5 mph)
Complement:
  • 1,100 (peace)
  • 1,300 (war)
  • Both include Fleet Air Arm personnel
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 2 × 227Q
  • 1 × 293M
  • 1 × 960/281BQ
  • 1 × 961
Armament:30 × Bofors 40 mm guns (18 single mountings, 6 twin mountings)
Aircraft carried:Up to 38 aircraft
Notes:Taken from:
General characteristics as fast troop transport
Type:Fast Troop Transport
Displacement:
  • 14,380 tons (standard)
  • 19,550 tons (full load)
Boats & landing
craft carried:
  • 6 × LCM Mark VI
  • (1968 onwards)
Complement:
  • 544 core
  • Increased to 1000 when required
Armament:4 × Bofors 40 mm guns (4 single mountings)
Aircraft carried:4 × Wessex helicopters (occasionally embarked)
Notes:
  • Other characteristics as above
  • Taken from: