HMS Ocean ( R68 ) - wikipedia HMS Ocean ( R68 ) For other ships with the same name, see HMS Ocean. HMS Ocean off Korea in July 1952 History United Kingdom Laid down : 8 November 1942 Launched : 8 July 1944 Commissioned : 8 August 1945 Decommissioned : 1960 Out of service : In reserve, 1957 Fate : Scrapped in Faslane, Scotland 1962 General characteristics Class and type : Colossus - class aircraft carrier Displacement : 13,190 tons Length : 630 ft ( 190 m ) Beam : 80 ft ( 24 m ) Draught : 18 ft 6 in ( 5.64 m ) Propulsion : Parson geared turbines, 4 × Admiralty 3 - drum boilers 2 shafts 40,000 shp ( 29,800 kW ) Speed : 25 knots ( 46 km / h ) Range : 12,000 nm at 14 knots ( 22,200 km at 26 km / h ) Complement : 1,300 officers and men Armament : 24 × 2 - pounder 32 × 20 mm Aircraft carried : 48 HMS Ocean was a Royal Navy Colossus - class light fleet aircraft carrier of 13,190 tons built in Glasgow by Alexander Stephen and Sons. Her keel was laid in November 1942, and she was commissioned on 30 June 1945. Contents 1 Construction and design 2 Service 3 References 4 Sources 5 External links Construction and design The Colossus - class was a class of relatively small aircraft carriers which were designed to be built quickly to meet the Royal Navy 's requirements for more carriers to allow it to fight a global war. In order to allow speedy build, they were designed to mercantile rather than navy hull standards, while armour protection and long - range anti aircraft guns were not fitted. Sixteen ships were ordered by the end of 1942, but the last six were completed to a modified design as the Majestic - class. The ships were between 693 feet 2 inches ( 211.28 m ) and 695 feet 0 inches ( 211.84 m ) long overall, 650 feet ( 198.12 m ) at the waterline and 630 feet ( 192.02 m ) between perpendiculars. Beam was 80 feet ( 24.38 m ) and draught was 23 feet 6 inches ( 7.16 m ) at deep load. Displacement was 13,190 long tons ( 13,400 t ) standard and 18,040 long tons ( 18,330 t ) deep load. Four Admiralty 3 - drum boilers supplied steam to two sets of Parsons geared steam turbines which in turn drove two propeller shafts. The machinery was rated at 40,000 shaft horsepower ( 30,000 kW ), giving a speed of 25 knots ( 29 mph ; 46 km / h ). The ships had a range of 12,000 nautical miles ( 14,000 mi ; 22,000 km ) at a speed of 14 knots ( 16 mph ; 26 km / h ). The flight deck was 690 feet ( 210.3 m ) long and 80 feet ( 24.4 m ) wide, while the hangar was 445 feet ( 135.6 m ) long and 52 feet ( 15.8 m ) wide with a clear overhead height of 17 feet 6 inches ( 5.33 m ). While designed to carry 24 aircraft in 1942, by the time that they became operational, the ships were accommodating 37 aircraft. Ocean was fitted with a close - in anti-aircraft armament of six quadruple and seven single 2 - pounder ( 40 mm ) pom - pom autocannon and twelve single Bofors 40 mm guns. The ship had a crew of 1300 officers and ratings. Ocean was laid down at Alexander Stephen and Sons Glasgow shipyard on 8 November 1942 and was launched on 8 July 1944. In March 1944, a proposal was made by the Australian government to purchase a light fleet carrier, specifically Ocean. The application was rejected in early June 1945, and the carrier entered Royal Navy service. The ship was commissioned on 8 August 1945. In total, the ship required 20772 man - months to build. Service The first carrier landing and take - off of a jet aircraft in 1945 On 4 December 1945, a Sea Vampire flown by Eric `` Winkle '' Brown made the first ever carrier landing of a purely jet - powered aircraft onto Ocean ( although earlier that year a composite jet and piston engined Ryan FR - 1 Fireball had made a carrier landing under jet power after its radial engine failed. ) The last Fairey Swordfish to make an official flight from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier did so earlier in October 1945 from the deck of Ocean. When British forces withdrew from Palestine in 1948, Ocean supported the withdrawal. Ocean twice deployed to Korea, firstly from May to October 1952 and then from May to November 1953. In August 1952 a formation of Hawker Sea Fury aircraft from the carrier engaged North Korean MiG - 15 jets in air combat, shooting one down. In August 1954 she joined the Home Fleet 's training squadron but saw an active role in the Suez crisis. In the first ever large - scale helicopter borne assault, Westland Whirlwind and Bristol Sycamore helicopters from Ocean and HMS Theseus landed 425 men of 45 Commando and 23 tons of stores into Port Said in 90 minutes. After Suez, the ship did not see much more active service. In September 1957, the Soviet Union protested when HMS Maidstone accompanied Ocean on a visit to Helsinki. She went into extended reserve in 1958 and was scrapped in 1962 at Faslane. In his book on the Hungarian Revolution, Peter Fryer briefly refers to the `` arrest of twelve British seamen in the aircraft carrier Ocean, following unlawful meetings '' in October 1956. References Jump up ^ Chesneau 1998, pp. 129, 131 Jump up ^ Brown 2012, pp. 57 -- 58 ^ Jump up to : Brown 1977, pp. 50 -- 51 Jump up ^ Brown 2012, pp. 58 -- 59 ^ Jump up to : Chesneau 1998, p. 129 ^ Jump up to : Wright, Anthony ( June 1998 ) ( 1978 ). Australian Carrier Decisions : the acquisition of HMA Ships Albatross, Sydney and Melbourne. Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs ( No. 4 ). Canberra : Sea Power Centre. pp. 55 -- 109. ISBN 0 - 642 - 29503 - 4. ISSN 1327 - 5658. Jump up ^ Brown 2012, p. 58 Jump up ^ `` First Jet Landing. '' Naval Aviation News, United States Navy, March 1946, p. 6. The first jet aircraft to operate from an aircraft carrier was the unconventional composite propeller - jet Ryan FR Fireball, but it was designed to utilise its piston engine during takeoff and landing. On 6 November 1945, the piston engine of an FR - 1 failed on final approach and the pilot started the jet engine and landed, thereby performing the first jet - powered carrier landing, albeit unintentionally. Jump up ^ McCart 2002, pp. 100 -- 101 Jump up ^ Fryer, Peter ( December 1996 ) ( 1956 ). Hungarian Tragedy. London : New Park. pp. 39 -- 40. ISBN 0861510720. Sources Brown, David ( 1977 ). World War 2 Fact Files : Aircraft Carriers. London : Macdonald and Jane 's. ISBN 0 - 354 - 01008 - 5. Brown, David K. ( 2012 ). Nelson to Vanguard : Warship Design and Development 1923 -- 1945. Barnsley, UK : Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 - 1 - 84832 - 149 - 6. Chesneau, Roger ( 1998 ). Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present : An Illustrated Encyclopedia. London : Brockhampton. ISBN 1 - 86019 - 875 - 9. Fryer, Peter ( December 1996 ) ( 1956 ). Hungarian Tragedy. London : New Park. ISBN 0861510720. McCart, Neil ( 2002 ). The Colossus - Class Aircraft Carriers 1944 -- 1972. Cheltenham : Fan Publications. ISBN 1901225062. Wright, Anthony ( June 1998 ) ( 1978 ). Australian Carrier Decisions : the acquisition of HMA Ships Albatross, Sydney and Melbourne. Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs ( No. 4 ). Canberra : Sea Power Centre. pp. 55 -- 109. ISBN 0 - 642 - 29503 - 4. ISSN 1327 - 5658. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Ocean ( R68 ). Maritimequest HMS Ocean photo gallery The Minister of Defence, Earl Alexander, inspects HMS Ocean off Korea in 1952. 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier hide Colossus - class aircraft carrier Royal Navy Colossus Glory Ocean Perseus Pioneer Theseus Triumph Venerable Vengeance Warrior Argentine Navy Independencia ( ex-Warrior ) Veinticinco de Mayo ( ex-Karel Doorman ) Royal Australian Navy Vengeance Brazilian Navy Minas Gerais ( ex-Vengeance ) Royal Canadian Navy Warrior French Navy Arromanches ( ex-Colossus ) Royal Netherlands Navy Karel Doorman ( ex-Venerable ) hide Majestic - class aircraft carrier Royal Navy Ordered for, but never operated by Hercules Leviathan Magnificent Majestic Powerful Terrible Royal Australian Navy Melbourne ( ex-Majestic ) Sydney ( ex-Terrible ) Royal Canadian Navy Canadian Forces Bonaventure ( ex-Powerful ) Magnificent Indian Navy Vikrant ( ex-Hercules ) Preceded by : Implacable class Followed by : Audacious class List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1946 Shipwrecks 1 Jan : USS Dorsey 2 Jan : U-516, U-2502 3 Jan : Empire Tigachi, U-825, U-2336, U-2351 5 Jan : U-541, U-901, U-2506 6 Jan : U-1109, U-2356 7 Jan : U-1010, U-1023, U-2511 8 Jan : HMS Safari 14 Jan : USS Snowbell, USS Southard 28 Jan : Bluenose January ( unknown date ) : Akagi Maru 2 Feb : U-764 3 Feb : I - 505 5 Feb : U-1228 10 Feb : U-975 12 Feb : I - 501, U-3514 14 Feb : Fulham VII 15 Feb : I - 502, I - 506 February ( unknown date ) : U-1197 1 Mar : Sackett 's Harbor 4 Mar : USS Extricate 6 Mar : George W. Norris 11 Mar : USS Roche 16 Mar : Karl Leonhardt 26 Mar : Z34 27 Mar : LST - 405 1 Apr : I - 58, I - 156, I - 157, I - 158, I - 159, I - 402, Charles S. Haight 4 Apr : USS S - 35 5 Apr : I - 202 8 Apr : USS Despatch 9 Apr : Empire Bridge 16 Apr : I - 503, I - 504 21 Apr : Empire Christopher 30 Apr : Georgetown Victory, RO - 500, USS Solar, HMS Stubborn, HMAS Tolga 1 May : HMS Tarantula 8 May : I - 153, I - 154, I - 155 14 May : USS Bellona 23 May : I - 201 24 May : DD - 224 ( ex-USS Stewart ) 28 May : I - 14 31 May : I - 401 4 Jun : I - 400, Kunashiri 7 Jun : Kamikaze 8 Jun : Myōkō 9 Jun : USS Solar 1 Jul : USS Anderson, USS Carlisle, USS Gilliam, USS Lamson, Sakawa 25 Jul : USS Apogon, USS Arkansas, USS LSM - 60, USS Pilotfish, USS Saratoga, USS Skipjack 30 Jul : Nagato 2 Aug : Empire Cross 19 Sep : Ohio 16 Oct : Cassius Hudson 17 Oct : HMAS Waree 19 Oct : Takao 13 Nov : U-977 20 Nov : Albany 27 Nov : Lasknes 2 Dec : HMCS Middlesex 8 Dec : Liberté, HMS Saltburn 16 Dec : Leipzig, Z29 22 Dec : Prinz Eugen 26 Dec : USAT Brigadier General M.G. Zalinski 31 Dec : Monte Pascoal, Schwabenland Other incidents 14 Feb : Alfred Victory 8 May : HMS Orion ( Corfu Channel incident ), HMS Superb ( Corfu Channel incident ) 15 May : HMS Diomede 1 Jul : Prinz Eugen 25 Jul : Nagato, Prinz Eugen Jul : Patrick Henry 22 Oct : HMS Mauritius ( Corfu Channel incident ), HMS Leander ( Corfu Channel incident ) ; HMS Saumarez ( Corfu Channel incident ), HMS Volage ( Corfu Channel incident ) 12 Nov : HMS Ocean ( Corfu Channel incident ) 8 Dec : Empire Eden 6 Dec : Niels Poulson Unknown date : Brown Bear 1945 1947 December 1945 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Ocean_(R68)&oldid=858358672 '' Categories : Colossus - class aircraft carriers Ships built in Glasgow 1944 ships Cold War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom Korean War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom Maritime incidents in 1946 1944 establishments in Scotland Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from December 2016 Use British English from December 2016 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from September 2018 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch فارسی Français Italiano 日本 語 Polski Suomi Svenska Українська Tiếng Việt 3 more Edit links This page was last edited on 6 September 2018, at 16 : 09 ( UTC ). 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Question: first jet to land on an aircraft carrier
Answer: a Sea Vampire