HMS Vindex (D15)
 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.