French Aircraft Carrier Arromanches (R95)
Arromanches (R95) was an aircraft carrier of the French Navy, which served from 1946 to 1974. She was previously HMS Colossus (R15) of the Royal Navy. She was the name-ship of the Colossus-class of light carriers. She was commissioned in 1944, but was not used for combat flying in World War II. She served with the British Pacific Fleet in 1945–46, as an aircraft transport and repatriation ship.
In 1946, she was transferred to the French Navy, and renamed Arromanches.
Arromanches participated in the First Indochina War in three campaigns from 1948 to 1954, and the Suez Crisis of 1956. In 1968 she was converted to an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) carrier. She was decommissioned in 1974, and broken up in 1978.
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