HMS Vindex (D15)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Vindex.
HMS Vindex
History
United Kingdom
NameVindex
BuilderSwan Hunter
Laid down1 July 1942[1]
Launched4 May 1943[1]
Commissioned3 December 1943[1]
Honours and
awards
  • Atlantic
  • Arctic
  • Pacific[1]
FateSold into merchant service as Port Vindex 2 October 1947 and scrapped at Kaohsiung August 1971[1]
General characteristics
Class and typeNairana-class escort carrier
Displacement13,455 long tons (13,671 t)
Length524 ft (160 m)
Beam68 ft 6 in (20.88 m)
Draught21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power11,000 hp (8,200 kW)
Propulsion
Speed17 kn (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Complement700
Armament
Aircraft carried15–20

HMS Vindex (D15) was a Nairana-class escort carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built at Swan Hunter shipyards in Newcastle upon Tyne. When construction started in 1942 she was intended as a merchant ship, but was completed and launched as an escort carrier, entering service at the end of 1943.

Vindex operated escorting convoys and doing anti-submarine work in the Atlantic and Arctic theatres. Her Swordfish aircraft were involved in the sinking of four U-boats during her service. She survived the war, and immediately afterwards served in the Far East transporting men and material to and from Japan. In 1947, she was decommissioned and sold for commercial use, to Port Line and renamed Port Vindex. In 1971, she was scrapped in Taiwan.

  1. ^ a b c d e "HMS Vindex". Fleet Air Arm Archives. Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)