HMS Colossus Light Carrier

[Barry]

Getting to the point of a lot of repetition on Tarawa so it's butterfly time again hopefully not too big not sure about 1/200th this time. They were an interesting class of ship almost the bargain basement carrier it can be built with almost any of the worlds navies' flags as the British sold them to everybody. Embarked lord knows how many different aircraft types quick mods to angled flight decks etc and I don't think it's been done before.

The lines are almost classic British carrier down to the typical funnel lines.

By rights I should label her Arromanches as the plans are taken from the French Naval Archives site.

This would appear to be near the general outline of the ship

[Yu Gyokubun]

Since I like both aircraft and ship, I think aircraft carrier must be ideal to enjoy both at the same time. But like your Tarawa usually aircraft carrier is big and I hesitated to try them. Although I have no knowledge about this ship the wording "light carrier" implies relatively small size and am interested. I am looking forward to seeing the progress.

[Barry]

Fingers got to aching rolling tubes so I played a bit more with this one

[Barry]

Looks like Triumph would fit the bill Don but the bridge would need a few mods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HMS_Triumph_1950.jpg

[Don Boose]

Triumph would be good (with a deck full of Fireflys and Sea Furys), although Theseus, Glory, and Ocean also served. Ocean and Theseus also served as commando helicopter carriers during Operation MUSKETEER during the 1956 Suez crisis. I do not know what, if any, modifications were made to them by that time.

If you don’t mind, Barry, I am going to repeat here in modified form the info on Royal Navy (and Royal Australian Navy) carriers that served off Korea in case any other members of the forum have corrections or additions.

HMS Triumph (R16, Tail Code “P”) with 14 Carrier Air Group [CAG]: 800 Naval Air Squadron [NAS] (Spitfire FR.47s) and 827 Naval Air Squadron (Firefly FR/NF Mk Is), July – October 1950.

HMS Theseus (R64, Tail Code “T”) with 17 CAG: 807 NAS (Sea Fury FB.11s) and 810 NAS (Firefly AS/FR.5s), October 1950 - April 1951.

HMS Glory (R62, Tail Code “R”) with 14 CAG: 804 NAS (Sea Fury FB.11s) and 812 NAS (Firefly FR.5s), April-September 1951 and January-May 1952 and, with 807 NAS (Sea Fury FB.11s) and 821 NAS (Firefly AS/FR.5s), November 1952 - May 1953.

HMS Ocean (R68, Tail Code “O”) with 802 NAS (Sea Fury FB.11s) and 825 NAS (Firefly FR/AS Mk Vs), May-November 1952. [It was during this deployment that Lt Peter [Hoagy] Carmichael of 802 NAS shot down a MiG-15 on 9 August 1952.] And again, with 807 NAS (Sea Fury FB.11s) and 810 NAS (Firefly, AS/FR.5s), May 1953 through the Armistice.

And the nearly-identical Magnificent-class RAN Sydney (R17, Tail Code “K”) with 21 CAG: 808 Australian NAS (Sea Fury FB.11s) and 817 ANAS (Firefly AS.5s and 6s), Sep 51 – Jan 52.

Triumph and Theseus would also have had one or two Sea Otters on board and the others would have had a Westland Dragonfly to pull downed fliers out of the drink.

Sources:

Fleet Air Arm Officers’ Association, available at http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/pages/f.../history.shtml, accessed October 11, 2007.

Fleet Air Arm Archive, available at http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Squadrons/Index.html, accessed October 11, 2007

Davis Hobbs, “British Commonwealth Carrier Operations in the Korean War,” Air & Space Power Journal, Volume XVIII, No. 4, Winter 2004. http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj04/win04/hobbs.html

[Barry]

More or less how it will look at the moment if anyone has a pic of a pompom fire director it would be nice, needs more net bins and the depth charge stowage

[B-Manic]

Originally Posted by barry

More or less how it will look at the moment if anyone has a pic of a pompom fire director it would be nice, needs more net bins and the depth charge stowage

What type of pom-pom and/or what radar type, time period?

You could try here The Gunnery Pocket Book, B.R. 224/45

http://hnsa.org/doc/br224/index.htm

[Barry]

Thanks that's a good site

[Barry]

This was the best I could come up with period about 1944 hopefully it remains to be seen if they are buildable

[Golden Bear]

Well of course YOU can build these, Barry! I look forward to seeing you attempt it anyway.


Carl