RN · CVL
AfloatAircraft repair ship and light carrier, pennant I72. She supported the British Pacific Fleet at Okinawa and from the Admiralty Islands and the Philippines in 1945. She was not a front-line strike carrier.
| Type | Light carrier (CVL) |
|---|---|
| Hull | I72 |
| Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
| Launched | 1941-11-20 |
| Commissioned | 1943-03-12 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived. Decommissioned in January 1946, recommissioned in 1949 for Korea, listed for disposal in 1958 and scrapped from 15 June 1959. Pacific service: supported the British Pacific Fleet in 1945. |
Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
HMS Unicorn (I72) underway in the Atlantic in 1943, some 700 km west of Gibraltar. The photograph is from before her Pacific service. Imperial War Museums photograph FL 6449, via Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons File:HMS Unicorn (I72) underway in the Atlantic 1943.jpg. Public domain.
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