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]