USRN Victory

USRN Victory

USRN Victory in August 1961
History
United States of Sera
Name:	Victory
Ordered:	1 February 1954
Builder:	Ironforge International Shipbuilding
Cost:	$182 million (1954) ($1.23 billion today)
Laid down:	2 August 1954
Launched:	29 September 1956
Sponsored by:	Queen Zuri Tu'Aruc
Acquired:	1 August 1957
Commissioned:	10 August 1957
Decommissioned:	20 April 2022
Reclassified:	CV-1
Identification:	Callsign: VICT Hull number: CVA-1
Fate:	Scrapped, 13th August 2022
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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 Victory (CV-1) is the First of two Carpathia conventional carriers built for the United States of Sera Royal Navy in the 1950s. 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. Commissioned in 1957, she served extensively across the globe, however most deployments have been in the Armanza Sea, Emmirian Sea, and the Cantalle Ocean, especially during the World War, for which she earned 13 battle stars. Near the end of her career, she also served during the Seran-Spartan War in 2021, and during the Zalluabed campaign delivering humanitarian aid.