HMS Nairana was an escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service in World War II.
When construction started in 1941 she was intended as a merchant ship, but was completed and launched as an escort carrier, entering service at the end of 1943.
Nairana operated escorting convoys and doing anti-submarine work in the Atlantic and Arctic theatres.
She survived the war, and in 1946 was transferred to
the Dutch Navy as the Karel Doorman (QH1),
the first Dutch aircraft carrier. In 1948 she was replaced
in the Dutch Navy by another Karel Doorman (R81), previously HMS Venerable.
Nairana was returned to the Royal Navy, and immediately
sold to Port Line, becoming the merchant ship Port Victor.
In 1971 she was scrapped at Faslane. |
HMS Venerable (R63) was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy.
She served for only the last few months of World War II, and in 1948 she was sold to the Netherlands and renamed HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81) and taking part in the military clash in 1962 in Western New Guinea
In 1969, after a boiler-room fire, she was sold to the
Argentine Navy and renamed Veinticinco de Mayo,
and
later taking part in the Falklands War.
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