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Page updated 14 - 9 - 2004

H.M.S. Vengeance, H.M.A.S. Vengeance,

& Minas Gerais (Brazilian Navy)

The end of the last of the Colossus class Light Fleet Carriers

After over two years of trying to save the former Royal Navy WW2 aircraft  carrier she now like those before her becomes a pile of scrap. The story of these attempts is available at www.fleetairarmarchive.net/vengeance/News.html

 

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The photographs were supplied by Ron Davis - webmaster at www.hms.vengeance.btinternet.co.uk

 

Nigel West  (Military Historian) states in his book "The Secret War for the Falklands"  that the Argentine Veinticinco de Mayo, ex H.M.S. Venerable was the last Colossus class afloat. She was in fact de-commissioned in 1986 and eventually towed to Alang in India for breaking up in 2000.

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