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EMPIRE AUDACITY escort aircraft carrier (1, 1939 / 1941)


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Audacity

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Empire Audacity (ex-Sinbad, ex-Hannover), 7.1941- Audacity D10 765 Bremer Vulcan, Germany // Blyth SB, Cowpen Quay 1938 29.3.1939 5.1939 // 20.6.1941 sunk 21.12.1941


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

10230

Displacement full, t

11000

Length, m

142.4

Breadth, m

17.1 wl

Draught, m

6.58

No of shafts

1

Machinery

2 MAN diesels

Power, h. p.

5200

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

diesel oil 649

Endurance, nm(kts)12000(14.5)
Armament

1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 1 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 4 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 6 aircraft (Martlet fighters)

Electronic equipmenttype 79B radar
Complement210


Air group


Year 12/1941
Fighters 4 Martlet


Standard scale images


<i>Audacity</i> 1941
Audacity 1941


Graphics


<i>Audacity</i>
Audacity


Aircraft facilities

 (fd - 2,566m², ha - 0m² / 0m³): Flight deck: 137.2 x 18.3m. There were no hangar, catapults and elevators. Planes were stored at flight deck. Aviation fuel stowage was 45,500l.

Project history First escort aircraft carrier of Royal Navy was converted from German refrigerator vessel Hannover (5537BRT), captured 7.3.1940 by British cruiser Dunedin, comm

 First escort aircraft carrier of Royal Navy was converted from German refrigerator vessel Hannover (5537BRT), captured 7.3.1940 by British cruiser Dunedin, commissioned as transport Sinbad. Later re-rated as ocean boarding vessel. The decision to convert her to escort aircraft carrier intended for "trade protection" was accepted 2.1.1941. Converted in 1 - 6.1941.

Ship structure was extreme simplified. It was not provided hangar, elevators, neither catapults, nor islands on her. Aircrafts (only 6 planes) were stored simply on a flight deck. Ship stowed 3000t of solid ballast.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Audacity was twice torpedoed by German submarine U751 in the evening 21.12.1941. Carrier lost speed after hit of the first torpedo, after 70 minutes two more torpedoes hit the ship, she has broken apart and sunk. 72 people were lost.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.