HMS Vindex (D15)

	HMS Vindex
History
United Kingdom
Name	Vindex
Builder	Swan Hunter
Laid down	1 July 1942
Launched	4 May 1943
Commissioned	3 December 1943
Honours and; awards	Atlantic; Arctic; Pacific;
Fate	Sold into merchant service as Port Vindex and scrapped at Kaohsiung August 1971
General characteristics
Class and type	Nairana-class escort carrier
Displacement	13,455 long tons (13,671 t)
Length	524 ft (160 m)
Beam	68 ft 6 in (20.88 m)
Draught	21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power	11,000 hp (8,200 kW)
Propulsion	2 × diesel engines; 2 × propellers;
Speed	17 kn (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Complement	700
Armament	2 × 4 in (100 mm) dual purpose guns (1x2); 16 × 2-pounder "Pom Pom" anti-aircraft guns (4x4); 16 × 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft autocannons (8x2);
Aircraft carried	15–20

HMS Vindex (D15) was a Nairana-class escort carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built at Swan Hunter shipyards in Newcastle upon Tyne. When construction started in 1942 she was intended as a merchant ship, but was completed and launched as an escort carrier, entering service at the end of 1943.

Vindex operated escorting convoys and doing anti-submarine work in the Atlantic and Arctic theatres. Her Swordfish aircraft were involved in the sinking of four U-boats during her service. She survived the war, and immediately afterwards served in the Far East transporting men and material to and from Japan. In 1947, she was decommissioned and sold for commercial use, to Port Line and renamed Port Vindex. In 1971, she was scrapped in Taiwan.

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