History
Name: | HMS Warrior
Builder: | Harland and Wolff
Laid down: | 12 December 1942
Launched: | 20 May 1944
Commissioned: | 2 April 1945
Identification: | Pennant number: R31
Fate: | Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy
Name: | HMCS Warrior
Commissioned: | 14 March 1946
Decommissioned: | 23 March 1948
Motto: | "Haul together"
Fate: | Returned to Royal Navy
Badge: | Azure, the head and shoulders of a Viking proper wearing the typical Viking helmet argent, wings or, coat of mail argent trimmed or
Name: | HMS Warrior
Commissioned: | November 1948
Decommissioned: | February 1958
Fate: | Sold to Argentina in 1958
Name: | ARA Independencia
Commissioned: | 8 July 1959
Decommissioned: | 1970
Identification: | Pennant number: V-1
Fate: | Scrapped in Argentina in 1971
General characteristics as built
Class and type: | Colossus-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: | 18,300 long tons (18,600 t)
Length: | 630 ft 0 in (192.0 m) pp 695 ft 0 in (211.8 m) oa
Beam: | 80 ft 0 in (24.4 m)
Draught: | 23 ft 3 in (7.1 m)
Propulsion: | 4 × Admiralty 3-drum type boilers 2 × screw 2 × Parsons geared turbines 40,000 shp (30 MW)
Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h)
Range: | 12,000 nmi (22,224 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement: | 1,300 (max)
Armament: | 4 × twin 40 mm Bofors guns 20 × single 40 mm Bofors guns