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HMS Vengeance (R71) was a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II.The carrier served in three navies during her career: the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS Vengeance, from 1952 to 1955), and the Brazilian Navy (as NAeL Minas Gerais, from 1956 to 2001).
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HMS Vengeance (1758) was a 28-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1758 and sunk as a breakwater in 1766. HMS Vengeance (1774) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1774. She became a prison ship in 1808 and was broken up in 1816. HMS Vengeance (1793) was a Dutch galliot, possibly the Lady Augusta, purchased in 1793 and sold in 1804.
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Vengeance was returned to the United Kingdom in 1955, with the crew transferred to Majestic, which was commissioned into the RAN as HMAS Melbourne on 28 October 1955. [43] The new carrier delivered new aircraft to the Fleet Air Arm: the de Havilland Sea Venom jet fighter-bomber for 805 and 808 Squadrons, and the turboprop-driven Fairey Gannet ...
One aircraft. Embarked on board the light cruiser HMAS Brisbane in 1917. Sopwith Camel: Camel 2F1: United Kingdom: Single-seat shipboard fighter-scout biplane: 1917–1919: Seven aircraft. The Camels were embarked on board the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, and the light cruisers HMAS Sydney and HMAS Melbourne: Sopwith Pup: Pup: United Kingdom
Equipped with Hawker Sea Fury aircraft, the Squadron was embarked on HMAS Sydney during her post- Korean War patrol of Korean waters in 1953. It operated briefly out of Hong Kong before returning to Australia in early 1954 where it embarked aboard HMAS Vengeance for a short period. It was then disbanded on 3 August 1954. [2]
HMS Vengeance was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Vengeance and her sister ships were smaller and faster than the preceding Majestic -class battleships , but retained the same battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) guns.