British Royal Navy aircraft carrier during World War II
HMS Audacity, after her conversion to an escort carrier
History
United Kingdom
Name
Hannover (1939–40)
Sinbad (1940)
Empire Audacity (1940–41)
HMS Empire Audacity (1941)
HMS Audacity (1941)
Owner
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen (1939–40)
Ministry of War Transport (1940–41)
Royal Navy (1941)
Operator
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen (1939–40)
Cunard White Star Line (1940–41)
Royal Navy (1941)
Port of registry
Bremen (1939–40)
Kingston, Jamaica (1940)
London (1940–41)
Royal Navy (1941)
Builder
Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack
Launched
29 March 1939
Commissioned
20 June 1941
Identification
Code Letters DOVB (1939–40)
Code Letters GLZX (1940–41)
Pennant number D10 (1941)
Honours and awards
Atlantic 1941
Captured
7 March 1940
Fate
Sunk by U-751, 21 December 1941
General characteristics
Type
Escort carrier
Tonnage
5,537 GRT
Displacement
11,000 long tons (11,177 t)
Length
441 ft 9 in (134.65 m) (Hannover)
467 ft 3 in (142.42 m) (HMS Audacity)
Beam
56 ft 3 in (17.15 m)
Draught
23 ft 1 in (7.04 m) (Hannover)
27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) (HMS Audacity)
Installed power
5,200 hp (3,900 kW)
Propulsion
1 × 7-cylinder MAN diesel engine
1 × screw
Speed
15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement
As HMS Audacity: 480[1]
Sensors and processing systems
Type 79B air warning radar
Armament
As HMS Audacity:
1 × 4 inches (102 mm) gun
1 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) gun
4 × QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
4 × 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft cannons
Aircraft carried
Operational Use: 6[1]
Storage: 8
Aviation facilities
None; aircraft stored on flight deck[1]
HMS Audacity was a British escort carrier of the Second World War and the first of her kind to serve in the Royal Navy. She was originally the German merchant ship Hannover, which the British captured in the West Indies in March 1940 and renamed Sinbad, then Empire Audacity. She was converted and commissioned as HMS Empire Audacity, then as HMS Audacity. She was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in late 1941.
^ abcFord, Roger (2001) The Encyclopedia of Ships, pg. 362. Amber Books, London. ISBN 978-1-905704-43-9
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