USRN Triumph

USRN Triumph

USRN Triumph in August 1964
History
United States of Sera
Name:	Triumph
Ordered:	4 August 1955
Builder:	Ironforge International Shipbuilding
Cost:	$182 million (1955) ($1.23 billion today)
Laid down:	2 August 1955
Launched:	29 September 1959
Sponsored by:	Admiral Justyne Tettidia Arcavia
Commissioned:	14 October 1959
Reclassified:	CV-2
Identification:	Callsign: TRIU Hull number: CVA-2
Fate:	Active Service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Aircraft Carrier
Displacement:	56,300 long tons (57,200 t) light 81,101 long tons (82,402 t) full load
Length:	1,046 ft (319 m)
Beam:	130 ft (40 m) waterline 249 ft 6 in (76.05 m) extreme
Draft:	37 ft (11 m)
Propulsion:	4 geared turbines, 4 shafts, 280,000 shaft horsepower (210 MW) 8 Mombasa boilers
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement:	3,826 officers and men.
Sensors and processing systems:	UN/AS-39 3D air search radar IF/SAP-38 2D air search radar IF/SAP-14 surface search radar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	MK.XII SEW-CMS
Armament:	8 × 5"/54 caliber MK.XLII guns Sea Raider Missiles MK.XI CIWS
Aircraft carried:	70–90

The USRN Triumph (CV-2) is the second and last of two Carpathia conventional carriers built for the United States of Sera Royal Navy in the 1950s. Her sister ship, the USRN Victory served as the pride of the Royal Navy and naval flagship while the Triumph served as the flagship of the second fleet. Although both ships of the class were later fitted with catapult launchers, both carriers were initially built with angled decks to propel aircraft into the air.