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: