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Arromanches R95
Colossus-class aircraft carrier in the French Navy.

History

Arromanches R95
Aircraft Carrier
Name:Arromanches
Class: Colossus-class
Ordered: February 1942
Builder: Vickers Armstrong
Laid down: June11. 1942.
Launched: September 30. 1943
Commissioned: December 16. 1944 into Royal Navy
Decommissioned: January 22nd 1974
Complement: 700 in peace, 840 in war
Homeport:
 
Displacement: 13 600 tonns
(17 900 t)
Length: 693 fot - 211metres
Beam: 111 fot - 36metres
Draft: 7.2 metres
Propulsion: Steam Turbines (4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines)
 
Speed: 25 knots
Range: 12000nm at 15kts
Armament: Twenty-four 2 pdr guns.
Thirty-two 20 mm guns (replaced in 1945 by twenty-one 40 mm guns).
Four 3 pdr guns.
Camouflage:

Fate: Lent to the French Navy by the Royal Navy in 1946, and bought in 1951.
Scrapped in 1978.
Navy site:
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/marine_uk
Sources for this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier
http://frenchnavy.free.fr/ships/aircraft-carrier/arromanches/arromanches.htm
www.netmarine.net/bat/porteavi/arromanc/histoir
 
Web site's with more information:
www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-04CV-Colossus
HMS Colossus (R15) had a relatively brief time with the Royal Navy. She was the name-ship of the Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carriers

She was lent to the French Navy in 1946, and renamed Arromanches
While in French service, she participated in the First Indochina War in 1948 for three months. She was later purchased by the French in 1951.
In the following year, she returned once again to Indochina, this time as French warship. These modifications allowed her to operate Breguet Alizé aircraft.

In 1968 she was converted to an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) carrier, operating up to 24 helicopters.

At the end of her life, she was used as a training carrier (Fouga Zéphyr CM-175s were embarked aboard) and as a helicopter carrier for the French Marine Corps

1947: Cruise on AP, with the battleship Richelieu.

1948-1949: First Indochina campaign with fleets 4F and 8F. Campaign preceded and followed by exercises, including the latest (Verity), allow the development of the formula of the "Hunter Killer Group.

1950-1951: After major refit, a new campaign in Indochina.

1951: Purchased at the Royal Navy.

1952: Back to Toulon (June), and a fresh start towards Indochina (August)

1953-1954: New return to Toulon (February), to prepare a new départ.Les fleets 3E (Helldiver) and 11F (Hellcat), are actively involved in operations in North Vietnam, and in particular the resistance of Dien Bien Phu , then the evacuation of refugees.

1954-1955: Back to Toulon (September 1954). After fairing, he resumed his activities with maritime forces of the Mediterranean.

1956: Operation of Suez, along with La Fayette, with the 14 F (Corsair) and 9 F.

1957-1958: Grand fairing: development of a track oblique, and a mirror landing, landed weapons, radar equipment overhauled.

1958-1961: Use as a carrier aircraft, with Alize and Zephyr. Brief intervention in Bizerte (1961), and transport missions in the United States.

1962-1974: Gate-attack helicopters with 33E, the Arromanches continues to qualify pilots in the landing, (53S squadron). It allows to study the fight with the ASM 31F. He finished in 1974 his life, a large fairing (1968) had been extende
 
Aircraft carried

Alouette II and III.
Br-1050 Alizé.
F4U-7 Corsair.
F6F-5 Hellcat.
Fouga Zéphyr CM-175.
H-19D (S-55).
H-21.
HSS-1 (S-58)

 HUP-2.
MS-500 Criquet.
S-51.
SB2C-5 Helldiver.
SBD-5 Dauntless.
SNCASE Aquilon.
Seafire Mk III and XV.
TBM Avenger.
   
Sensors and processing systems:

One 79B, for air and surface scanning
One 277 and one 281B with a 293 target indicator

DRBV-22 for air scanning
DRBV-31 for surface scanning and navigation

 
   
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