Purchase
Built at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead on 3 December 1942, Venerable was launched just over a year later and commissioned on 17 January 1945.
In 1948, Venerable's short career in the Royal Navy came to an end when she was sold to the Netherlands and recommissioned as Hr.Ms. Karel Doorman, replacing a smaller Nairana-class escort carrier of the same name while in Dutch service.
In 1955-58 she was rebuilt with an 8° angled flight deck, new elevators, new island, 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, steam catapult, and all new aviation facilities and electronics were fitted, including a Dutch-built new radar. At the same time, a similar Dutch rebuild was done to her sister ship, the Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais.
Read more about this topic: HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81)
Famous quotes containing the word purchase:
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Will purchase us a good opinion,
And buy men’s voices to commend our deeds.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day;”
—Thomas Flatman (1637–1688)
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—Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842–1932)