HMAS Sydney

Type:
Aircraft Carrier
Class:
Majestic
Builder:
Devonport Dockyard
Plymouth, England
Hull Number:
R-93 (RN)
R-17 (RAN
A-214 (RAN)
P-214 (RAN)
Ordered:
December 7, 1942
Commissioned:
October 5, 1948
Keel Laid:
April 19, 1943
Decommissioned:
November 12, 1973
Launched:
September 30, 1944
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:
Sold for scrap Oct. 28, 1975 to Dongkuk Steel Mill Company Ltd. Seoul, South Korea and
scrapped in 1976.
Notes:
Laid down and launched as HMS Terrible, but sold to Australia in June 1947 and renamed Sydney.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
695' / 690' (flight deck)
Engines:
2 Brown-Curtis single reduction geared turbines
Beam:
80' 3" / 106' (flight deck)
Boilers:
4 Admiralty three drum type
Draft:
26'
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
15,700 std. / 19,500 full
SHP:
40,000
Crew:
1,300 (including air arm)
Speed:
23 knots (full)
Aircraft:
48
Range:
12,000 NM @ 14 knots


Class Overview
Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 4, 2007