HMS "Audacity" aircraft Carrier

[Anton88]

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
http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/images/audacity.jpg

[Venatore]

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]

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]

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 http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif