HMS "Audacity" aircraft Carrier

Anton88 · 11-12-09, 08:16 PM

If there is one more ship to add to this game.. its this one..
The audacity aircraft carrier. It looks like a regular Bogue but it has no tower. (it also had no aircraft hangar, and the planes were exposed to the elements at all times). It was sunk by U-751, if i remember..

11,000 tons..
a great ship to add to the game .. somebody please

Venatore · 11-13-09, 02:36 AM

Quotes from several web sites:

Built as German motor merchant Hannover (5537 tons) for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. On 7 Mar, 1940, the Hannover was captured in the Mona Passage off Dominica by the HMCS Assiniboine (I 18) and prevented from scuttling by a boarding party from the HMS Dunedin (I 93). The ship was first renamed Sinbad by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and then Empire Audacity, managed by Cunard White Star Line. 1940/41 converted to the first escort carrier of the Royal Navy fitted with six aircraft and renamed HMS Audacity (D 10).

At 21.37 hours on 21 Dec, 1941, the HMS Audacity (D 10) (Cdr D.W. Mackendrick) was hit by three torpedoes from U-751 while escorting convoy HG-76 and sank in ten minutes about 500 miles west of Cape Finisterre. The survivors were picked up by HMS Convolvulus (K 45) (Lt R.S. Connell), HMS Marigold (K 87) (Lt W.S. Macdonald) and HMS Pentstemon (K 61) (LtCdr J. Byron). The wreck is located in the North Atlantic, 350nm W of Cape Finisterre, Spain.

Nice addition if it can be created.

miner1436 · 11-13-09, 05:48 PM

I swear I remember seeing this ship completed and already added to SHIV somewhere, I remember it was in a post by hitman, sergbuto, or lurker hbl3 in the SHIV ATO mods section.

Jimbuna · 11-13-09, 05:55 PM

Yes Anton....she would indeed be a very welcome addition.

Send a PM to VonDos....you just never know, he may have a similar model on the stocks in his shipyard

11-12-09, 08:16 PM	#1
Anton88 Helmsman Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: home Posts: 106 Downloads: 121 Uploads: 0	HMS "Audacity" aircraft Carrier If there is one more ship to add to this game.. its this one.. The audacity aircraft carrier. It looks like a regular Bogue but it has no tower. (it also had no aircraft hangar, and the planes were exposed to the elements at all times). It was sunk by U-751, if i remember.. 11,000 tons.. a great ship to add to the game .. somebody please

11-13-09, 05:55 PM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Yes Anton....she would indeed be a very welcome addition. Send a PM to VonDos....you just never know, he may have a similar model on the stocks in his shipyard __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

11-13-09, 02:36 AM	#2
Venatore Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Australia:- Sydney Posts: 2,049 Downloads: 68 Uploads: 0	Quotes from several web sites: Built as German motor merchant Hannover (5537 tons) for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. On 7 Mar, 1940, the Hannover was captured in the Mona Passage off Dominica by the HMCS Assiniboine (I 18) and prevented from scuttling by a boarding party from the HMS Dunedin (I 93). The ship was first renamed Sinbad by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and then Empire Audacity, managed by Cunard White Star Line. 1940/41 converted to the first escort carrier of the Royal Navy fitted with six aircraft and renamed HMS Audacity (D 10). At 21.37 hours on 21 Dec, 1941, the HMS Audacity (D 10) (Cdr D.W. Mackendrick) was hit by three torpedoes from U-751 while escorting convoy HG-76 and sank in ten minutes about 500 miles west of Cape Finisterre. The survivors were picked up by HMS Convolvulus (K 45) (Lt R.S. Connell), HMS Marigold (K 87) (Lt W.S. Macdonald) and HMS Pentstemon (K 61) (LtCdr J. Byron). The wreck is located in the North Atlantic, 350nm W of Cape Finisterre, Spain. Nice addition if it can be created.

11-13-09, 05:48 PM	#3
miner1436 Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 808 Downloads: 107 Uploads: 3	I swear I remember seeing this ship completed and already added to SHIV somewhere, I remember it was in a post by hitman, sergbuto, or lurker hbl3 in the SHIV ATO mods section.