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Encyclopedia > HMS Unicorn (I72)

HMS Unicorn 172: Maintenance Carrier (modified Colossus-class Light Fleet Carrier) 14750 tons standard, 20300 tons full load. Built Belfast 1939-43, commissioned 12 Mar 1943; operational 1943 then reverted to designed supply and repair role; war service Atlantic and Mediterranean 1943, East Inches 1944-5, Pacific 1945, Korea 1950-3; sold to scrap 1959, stripped at Dalmuir, hull broken up at Troon from Mar 1960.


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HMS Unicorn and her sister ship, HMS Trincomalee, are surviving sailing frigates of the successful Leda class.
HMS Unicorn was built in peacetime at Chatham Dockyard and launched in 1824.
A superstructure was built over her main deck and she was laid up "in ordinary", serving as a hulk and a depot ship for most of the next 140 years.
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