HMS CENTAUR R06

Class……………………………Centaur class Light Aircraft Carrier

Builder………………………..Harland and Wolff, Belfast.

Yard number……………….1280

Laid down..………………….30 May 1944

Launched….…………………22 Apr 1947

Completed.………………….1 Sept 1953

Propulsion.…………………..4 shafts: 4 sets of Parsons SR geared steam turbines manufactured by Harland and Wolff : Steam supplied by 4 Admiralty 3-drum oil fired boilers.

Speed..…………………………29.5 knots

Range…………………………..6000 nm at 20 knots

Fate……………………………..11 Aug 1972: Sold to Queenborough Shipbreaking Company, and shortly afterwards she was towed to Cairnryan and broken up.

 

HMS CENTAUR in a MOD photograph date stamped 17 May 1966

 

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