type: aircraft carrier
class: Centaur
kodové label: R.12
[b:3e79c05917][i:3e79c05917]History:[/i:3e79c05917][/b:3e79c05917]
keel laid: 21.06.1944
running on water: 16.02.1953
dokočena and entered service: 25.11.1959
shipyard: Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness
1984 included in the backup
20.05.1987 sold to India and renamed the Viraat (R.22)
[b:3e79c05917][i:3e79c05917]Dimensions, displacement and crew:[/i:3e79c05917][/b:3e79c05917]
length: 208,8 m
width: 27,4 m
draught: 8,7 m
displacement: 23 900 t / max. 28 700 t
crew: 2 100
[b:3e79c05917][i:3e79c05917]Propulsion:[/i:3e79c05917][/b:3e79c05917]
2 turbines Parson
performance: of 76,000 HP (57 MW)
speed: 28 knots
range: 6500 nam. miles at a speed of 14 knots
[b:3e79c05917][i:3e79c05917]Armament:[/i:3e79c05917][/b:3e79c05917] (current)
2x 40mm Bofors
2x 30mm AK-230 (soviet)
2 throwers decoys Knebworth Corvus
[i:3e79c05917][b:3e79c05917]Radars and sonars:[/b:3e79c05917][/i:3e79c05917]
Marconi Type 996 radar for searching airborne targets
Signaal DA05 - radar to search the air and surface targets
2x Racal Decca 1006 - navigation radar
Graseby Type 184M - trupový sonar (active search)
[i:3e79c05917][b:3e79c05917]fleet:[/b:3e79c05917][/i:3e79c05917] (when deployed in the indian navy)
12 BAe Sea Harrier FRS Mk.51 (capacity 30)
7x Sea King Mk.42B/C
?x Ka-27 Helix
[b:3e79c05917][i:3e79c05917]Captains and the year of entry into service:[/i:3e79c05917][/b:3e79c05917]
1959 - D.With.Tibbits
1961 - W.D.O'brien
1966 - T. T. Lewin
1967 - D.G.Parker
1967 - J.D.Fieldhouse
1968 - D.G.Parker
1969 - P.M.Austin
1973 - C.R.P.C.Branson
1974 - D.R.Reffell
1976 - R.G.And.Fitch
1978 - D.C.Jenkins
1979 - D.J.Mackenzie
1980 - L.E.Middleton
1982 - R.C.Dimmock
1983 - To.And.Snow.