Arromanches
History
Name:Colossus
Namesake:Colossus
Builder:Vickers-Armstrong
Launched:30 September 1943
Commissioned:16 December 1944
Motto:On The Ball
Fate:loaned to French Navy in 1946
Name:Arromanches
Namesake:Arromanches-les-Bains
Acquired:1946
Decommissioned:1974
Identification:
  • Pennant number: R95
  • International signal: FBED
  • Air control callsign: "Sapho"
Fate:Scrapped in Toulon, France 1978
General characteristics
Class and type:Colossus-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:13 600 tonnes
Length:212 m (695 ft 6 in)
Beam:24.4 m (80 ft 1 in)
Draught:7.2 m (23 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:Steam Turbines (4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines)
Speed:25 kn (46 km/h)
Range:12,000 nmi (22,000 km)
Complement:1,300
Aircraft carried:48
Notes:Only under flag of the French Navy, her Air control callsign was "Sapho"[clarification needed][clarification needed]