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Revision as of 15:34, 2 February 2015

H.M.S. Vindictive (1918)
Pendant Number: 31 (Oct 1918)
48 (Sep 1919)[1]
Builder: Harland & Wolff[2]
Laid down: 29 Jun, 1918[3]
Launched: 17 Jan, 1918[4]
Commissioned: Oct, 1918[5]
Converted: 1925[6]
Fate: back to a cruiser

Started construction as H.M.S. Cavendish, as one of the Hawkins class cruiser, but completed as an aircraft carrier, H.M.S. Vindictive.

We treat her as a distinct class.

Service

Reduced to Reserve on 30 November, 1920..[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

  • Four 7.5-in/45cal Mark VI guns
  • Four 3-in
  • Four 12-pdr H.A. guns
  • Six 21-in tubes, two submerged and four fixed A.W. tubes, three to a side
  • Six folding-wing aircraft

Fire Control

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 52.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 63.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 63.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 63.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 69.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 69.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 890.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 890.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 935.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 890.

Bibliography

British Aviation Ships
Experimental Cruiser Platform, 1913
Hermes
Seaplane Carriers from Converted Steamers
Ark Royal Empress Riviera Engadine Campania Pegasus
Ben-my-Chree Vindex Manxman Nairana Vindictive
Seaplane Carriers from Seized German Steamers
Anne Raven II
Flat Decked Conversions
Argus Furious
Through-Deck Carriers
Eagle Hermes
Kite Balloon Ships
Canning City of Oxford Hector Manica Menelaus
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