History
Name: | HMS Nairana
Builder: | John Brown & Company
Laid down: | 7 November 1941
Launched: | 20 May 1943
Commissioned: | 12 December 1943
Decommissioned: | 1946
Identification: | Pennant number D05
Fate: | Transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy
Name: | HNLMS Karel Doorman
Namesake: | Karel Doorman
Commissioned: | 23 March 1946
Decommissioned: | 28 May 1948
Fate: | returned to Royal Navy
United Kingdom
Name: | Port Victor
Operator: | Port Line
Acquired: | 1948
Fate: | Scrapped 1971
General characteristics
Class and type: | Nairana-class escort carrier
Displacement: | 14,050 long tons (14,280 t)
Length: | 528 ft 6 in (161.09 m)
Beam: | 68 ft 6 in (20.88 m)
Draught: | 21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power: | 11,000 hp (8,200 kW)
Propulsion: | 2 × diesel engines 2 × screws
Speed: | 17 kn (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Complement: | 728
Armament: | 2 × 4 in (100 mm) Mk XVI guns 16 × 2-pounder (40 mm (1.57 in)) "pom pom" anti-aircraft guns (4x4) 16 × 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft autocannons (8x2)
Aircraft carried: | 15–20
Aviation facilities: | Hangar; 231 ft × 61 ft (70 m × 19 m) 1 × lift; 45 ft × 34 ft (14 m × 10 m) 8 × arrester wires