Laid Down: 27th January 1943.
Launched: 2nd October 1944.
Completed: 9th May 1946.
Machinery: Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers delivering 40,000 shp to 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines.
Displacement: 13,190 tons standard, 18,040 tons full load.
Dimensions:
Length: 695 feet overall
Beam: 112 feet 6 inches
Draught: 23 feet 5 inches maximum.
Armament: Six quadruple 2 pounder pompoms, nineteen 40mm single Bofors and four single 3 pounder saluting guns.
Performance:
Speed: 25 knots
Endurance: 8,300 miles at 20 knots.
Crew: 1,300.
Flight Deck: 690 feeet by 80 feet, with ten arrester wires rated at 20,000lbs at 60 knots and two barriers. One BH3 twin track catapult with a capacity of 16,000lb at 66 knots.
Hanger: 275 feet long by 52 feet wide by 17 feet and 6 inches high.
Lifts: Two lifts with 15,000 lb capacity, one forward and one aft.
Aircraft: 42.
Aircraft stores: 98,600 gallons aviation gasoline. 18in torpedoes, 500lb GP bombs, 250lb MC bombs, 250lb B bombs, 3in rockets with 28lb and 60lb warheads. Mk 11 depth charges, aircraft mines, 20mm cannon ammunition, flares and pyrotechnics.
Brief History: HMS Triumph was laid down on 27th January 1943 by Hawthorn Leslie & Co, Hebburn-on-Tyne and commissioned on 2nd October 1944 by Countess Mountbatten of Burma. She was commissioned in 1946 and completed on 9th May 1946.
HMS Triumph flew the flag of Fleet Lord Faser, CinC HF during a visit to Kronstadt in July 1946. In May 1947 Triumph escorted HMS Vanguard when she returned to the UK after HM King George VI's tour of South Africa, Triumph had 800 and 827 NAS embarked. In June, Triumph was allocated to the Mediterranean Fleet.
In April 1949, Triumph was recommissioned after a short refit an sailed for the Far East with 13 CAG embarked and struck communist terrorist targets in Malaya. In June 1950 she worked up off of Japan and joined Task Force 77 to support UN operations in Korea. For details of HMS Triumph's operations in Korea, see HMS Triumph in Korea.
In September 1950 she had been reduced to 11 aircraft and was withdrawn from the combat area, she returned to Portsmouth and recommissioned for service as a troopship operating between the UK and Middle East. In February 1952 she carried out flying trials for angled deck layout, and in September 1953 relieved HMS Devonshire as DTS after a short refit. In 1956 she was paid off into reserve and she was coverted into a heavy repair ship with work starting in December 1957, being suspended between 1960 and 1962 and she commenced trails on 9th September 1964. She was commissioned at Portsmouth on 7th January 1965 and allocated to the Far East Fleet and was based in Singapore. In February 1972 she returned to Portsmouth when the Far East Fleet was disbanded.
In March 1972 she was refitted at Chatham, this completed in December 1975 and placed in maintained reserve at Chatham/ In 1981 she was place don the disposal list and sold to Spanish shipbreakers, she was towed out on 9th December 1981.
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