Upon commissioning in mid-1916, Greenwich went to Scapa Flow to serve the Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla.She remained there through the end of the war, maintaining "M" class and later model destroyers.. Re-commissioned on 15 September, 1924. New 1/1250 scale waterline model of the British aircraft carrier HMS Vindictive by Spider Navy (SN 1-05) as in 1919. HMS VINDICTIVE (2) – January 1919 to March 1920, UK out, Baltic including CMB raid on Kronstadt, grounding and salvage, UK Home Edited by Su Startin, Old Weather Transcriber, Exeter, England HMS Vindictive as aircraft carrier, 1918-23 (Photo Ships, click images to enlarge) By this time the threat from German cruisers and raiders had ended, so construction proceeded slowly. Vindictive returned home in 1944 and was damaged by a German torpedo off the coast of Normandy after the Allies invaded France. A crash barrier was hung from "the gallows" at the forward end of the landing on deck. Vindictive was demilitarized and converted into a training ship in 1936–1937. Service. She arrived in May and her catapult was removed in October, ending her career as an aviation ship. In 1939-1940 she was converted to a repair ship. The conversion was completed on 30 March 1940,[26] just in time for the ship to be used with the Home Fleet as a troop transport during the Norwegian Campaign. By August 1943 she mounted a Type 286 target indication set as well as a Type 285 anti-aircraft gunnery radar. She also conducted catapult trials on float-equipped Fairey Flycatcher fighters. Available NOW! The hangar roof, with a small extension, formed the 106-foot (32 m) flying-off deck. Though six aircraft were allowed for, it was found that two fighters and six scout planes could be carried. She commissioned on 1 October and, after briefly working up, joined the Grand Fleet's Flying Squadron on 18 October only a few weeks before the A… Vindictive remained in the area until December acting as a "mother ship" for aircraft and the CMBs. [19] Furious and Vindictive had proven that the idea of "cruiser-carriers" was unworkable due to the turbulence from their superstructures and that a complete flight deck was necessary to successfully operate aircraft at sea. Their airfield was still under construction, but they were able to fly a reconnaissance mission over the major Bolshevik naval base at Kronstadt on 26 July while Vindictive sailed to Copenhagen, Denmark, to load aircraft and spares left for her by the carrier Argus. Alukselle tehtiin sen uran aikana useampia muutoksia ja siten sen ura oli melko vaihteleva ennen lopullista romuttamista 1946. ... (British Warships 1914-1919) [5], Their secondary armament comprised a dozen quick-firing (QF) 3-inch 20 cwt guns. The vessel participated in the Zeebrugge Raid. 2 7.5-inch gun, two 3-inch guns and the conning tower were removed and the forward superstructure was remodelled into a 78 by 49 feet (23.8 by 14.9 m) hangar with a capacity for six reconnaissance aircraft. In June she was renamed Vindictive, the fifth ship of that name in the RN, to perpetuate the name of the old protected cruiser Vindictive, which had distinguished herself in the Zeebrugge Raid of April 1918 and had then been sunk as a blockship at Ostend in May. It says he was killed on service, no aircraft serial is listed. 583–84; Raven & Roberts, p. 225, Friedman 2010, pp. The official 100th anniversary commemorations of World War One (WW1) mostly record a honourable, noble cause fought by happy, loyal, patriotic soldiers. Used under license of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported By November 1919 discontent had spread to the aircraft carrier 'Vindictive' (pictured, right) in Copenhagen. Deploying the torpedo from the CMB while planing at speed towards t… [12] Experiments conducted earlier aboard the larger Furious, with a similarly intact superstructure and funnels, had demonstrated that the turbulence from these was enough to make successful landings almost impossible at high speed. 1919 - Militarists and Mutineers Also published on the Workers' Liberty website. The principal concern was the major Bolshevik naval base at Kronstadt, which protected Petrograd. High powered and with a single step hull design, they were light, fast planing boats easily transported and when underway, capable of crossing minefields and skipping over protective booms. [29] In 1944 Vindictive was converted into a destroyer depot ship and her AA armament was reinforced by the addition of six more Oerlikons. No. HMS Vindictive was a Royal Navy warship built between 1916 and 1918. Wakefield minimised the problem by approaching the landing deck at an angle with the ship slowly moving. Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, World War II naval ships of the United Kingdom, What Were the British Earnings and Prices Then? [26] On the night of 12 November, she was attacked west of Gibraltar by the German submarine U-515, but managed to evade the torpedoes. Her armament now consisted of six single 4-inch QF Mk V AA guns, all on the centreline, two quadruple "pom-pom" mounts, one on each side, and six depth charges. HMS Vindictive picks up a ditched aircraft, Baltic 1919 HMS Vindictive firing party for dead pilot, Baltic 1919 In July 1919, Vindictive was dispatched to the Baltic Sea with 12 aircraft to support the British activities in the Baltic in support of the White Russians and independent Baltic states. This proposal had six 6-inch guns and three 4-inch AA guns, and her former aft boiler room was to be converted from a laundry into an oil tank to extend her range, but this was rejected in favour of a conversion into a fleet repair ship. Four days later, Rear Admiral Walter Cowan ordered Donald and his aircraft to attack Kronstadt at night. Her damage from grounding required extensive repairs at Portsmouth Dockyard at a cost of £200,000. Leading Steward William Patrick Rodgers HMS Vindictive Royal Navy . [2], The ships had four Parsons geared steam turbines, each of which drove one propeller shaft. The turbines were designed to produce a total of 60,000 shaft horsepower (45,000 kW) for a speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). No. HMS Vindictive was a warship built during the First World War for the Royal Navy (RN). 5 and 6 7.5-inch guns and moving the four 3-inch AA guns to an elevated platform between the funnels, in lieu of the 3-inch guns intended for that position. The officer in command and Finch kept up a perpetual flow of fire. Vindictive was subsequently broken up at Blyth. [22] In July 1935 the ship was briefly sailed from her reserve mooring to join in the King George V's Silver Jubilee Fleet Review held on the 15th. 444 embarked. The catapult was then removed. She was launched on 9 December 1897 and completed in 1899. They had a stowage capacity of 800 long tons (810 t) of coal and 1,600 long tons (1,600 t) of fuel oil, giving her a range of 5,400 nautical miles (10,000 km; 6,200 mi) at a speed of 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph). Two men were arrested. When it had begun in August 1914, the British government predicted that it would be won by Christmas, but it had dragged on for four more years, with dreadful suffering and loss of life. Vindictive completed her trials on 21 September 1918 (ahead of the four other Hawkins-class ships) and achieved a trial speed of 29.12 kn (33.51 mph; 53.93 km/h) with 63,600 shp (47,400 kW) of engine output. Some 2,200 long tons (2,200 t) of stores were also off-loaded, but the ship could not be towed free by the combined efforts of the light cruisers Danae and Cleopatra and three tugboats. 55, 404, Friedman 2010, p. 67; Lenton, pp. [8] A port side gangway 8 feet (2.4 m) wide connected the landing and flying-off decks to allow aircraft with their wings folded to be wheeled from one to the other. Aircraft Carrier, then returned to Cruiser, 1924. HMS Vindictive (1897) - WikiMili, The Free Encyclopedia - WikiMili, The Free Encyclopedia. [1], The cruisers had an overall length of 605 feet (184.4 m), a beam of 65 feet (19.8 m), and a mean draught of 19 feet 3 inches (5.9 m) at deep load. ... (1910-1919) - Duration: 1:35. Cavendish was laid down at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast on 26 June 1916 and launched on 17 January 1918. In June the ship was renamed HMS Vindictive and was commissioned in October 1918. HMS Vindictive - 18 months (1944-45) Petty Officer. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) Vindictive Sailors 28th April 1918: The crew of HMS Vindictive on their return from a mission to block off a German submarine base in Zeebrugge. The initial order had to be cancelled in April 1917 for lack of building facilities, so the Admiralty decided to convert Cavendish, already under construction, in June 1917. Originally designed as a Hawkins -class heavy cruiser and laid down under the name Cavendish, she was converted into an aircraft carrier while still building. Most importantly, nine of them attacked Kronstadt during the night of 17/18 August 1919 to provide a diversion for an attack by the CMBs on ships in Kronstadt harbour. [13], Vindictive was dispatched to the Baltic with a dozen aircraft, a mix of Griffins, Sopwith 2F.1 fighters, Sopwith 1½ Strutter and Short Type 184 bombers, on 2 July 1919 to participate in the British campaign in the Baltic in support of the White Russians and the newly independent Baltic states. The Hawkins-class cruiser was designed to hunt enemy commerce raiders overseas. The flight decks were removed and Vindictive was reconfigured back to a cruiser in 1924. She was then sent to the South Atlantic to support British ships serving there and, in late 1942, to the Mediterranean to support the ships there. The conning tower and its communication tube were protected by the only Krupp cemented armour in the ships and had thicknesses of 3 inches and 2 inches (51 mm) respectively. Vindictive completed her trials on 21 September 1918 (ahead of the four other Hawkins-class ships) and achieved a trial speed of 29.12 kn (33.51 mph; 53.93 km/h) with 63,600 shp (47,400 kW) of engine output. The major exception was that No. By December it was clear that the Whites' offensive against Petrograd had failed and the British began withdrawing; Vindictive left three Camels in Latvia, embarked the rest of her aircraft and sailed for home on 22 December. On 23 July 1929, she suffered an explosion in a gun at Chatham Dockyard in which one man was killed. By January 1944 she had received a Type 291 air warning radar. That same day eight RN Coastal Motor Boat (CMB)s arrived; Vindictive served as their depot ship. [4] On 17–18 August 1919, eight aircraft flying from the Vindictive carried out bombing and strafing attacks on gun and searchlight crews protecting the naval base. Her aft superstructure was extended to be flush with her sides and slightly lengthened, and a large deckhouse was built on the quarterdeck. The flight decks were removed and she was mostly restored to her designed configuration, although her 3-inch AA guns were replaced by three QF 4 inch Mk V AA guns. [28] She remained with the Mediterranean Fleet until 1944, when she was recalled to support the ships participating in Operation Overlord. ©2019, High Flying Dice Games, LLC. [21], She sailed for the China Station on 1 January 1926 with six Fairey IIIDs aboard for anti-piracy patrols and departed for home on 14 March 1928. [17], She was paid off into reserve at Portsmouth Dockyard on 24 December[18] and received permanent repairs of her damage from the grounding, at a cost of £200,000. She was laid down at the Belfast yard of Harland & Wolff in July 1916. She paid off into reserve in June 1945 and was scrapped at Blyth in February 1946. (New Series), Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, https://military.wikia.org/wiki/HMS_Vindictive_(1918)?oldid=4099270, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. Originally designed as a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser and laid down under the name Cavendish, she was converted into an aircraft carrier while still being built. As a result, the torpedo boats damaged the battleship Andrei Pervozvanny and sank Pamiat Azova. The S.N.O. 2's position was occupied by a prototype compressed-air Carey aircraft catapult, the first British cruiser to mount a catapult. The decks had a maximum thickness of 1–1.5 in (25–38 mm) over the engine rooms, boilers, and the steering gear. Accurate anti-aircraft fire kept the aircraft too high for an effective attack, but Donald's men claimed two hits on the submarine tender Pamiat Azova. 9,394 long tons (9,545 t) (light), 11,500 long tons (11,700 t) (deep load), 5,400 nmi (6,200 mi; 10,000 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h), 1,000 tons oil and coal fuel (normal), 800 tons coal and 1,500 tons oil (max), 2.5 to 1.5 in (64 to 38 mm) side (forward and aft). The modifications had made the ship lighter than the rest of the Hawkins-class, at 9,394 long tons (9,545 t) light displacement. With grateful thanks to the resources made available by www.naval-history.net. Stuck hard in the tideless Baltic, all of her fuel was dumped overboard, and most of her ammunition as well. VS showing the abandoned base, including scuttled ship lying on side in water. 67, 75; Lenton, p. 589, King George V's Silver Jubilee Fleet Review, http://www.britainsnavy.co.uk/Ships/HMS%20Vindictive/HMS%20Vindictive%20(1925)%20CC%205.htm, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Vindictive_(1918)&oldid=986625169, Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, World War II naval ships of the United Kingdom, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 9,394 long tons (9,545 t) (light), 12,400 long tons (12,600 t) (. [24] She was recommissioned on 7 September 1937. She had a low priority so little work had been done by early October, when a less complex modernisation was considered. It consisted of two layers of high-tensile steel of varying thicknesses that covered most of the ships' sides. (Senior Naval Officer?) To increase her stability after the addition of so much topweight, the upper portion of her anti-torpedo bulge was enlarged. [15], The carrier unloaded her air group, commanded by Major Grahame Donald, at Koivisto, Finland on 14 July. The ship was reduced to Reserve on 21 December, 1925. In this form (as illustrated) she displaced 9,100 long tons (9,200 t) and was capable of a maximum speed of 24 kn (28 mph; 44 km/h). HMS Vindictive was laid down by Harland and Wolff at Belfast on 26 June 1916 and was launched on 17 January 1918, being completed as an aircraft carrying cruiser on 21 September 1918. Eight of these were on low-angle mounts intended for use against torpedo boats and the remaining four were on high-angle mounts for anti-aircraft defence. The following year she participated in the British campaign in the Baltic against the Bolsheviks during which her aircraft made numerous attacks against the naval base at Kronstadt. A marine detachment was called in to disperse a group of seamen demanding leave. She was paid off to the reserve on 24 December 1919. HMS Vindictive oli Britannian kuninkaallisen laivaston vuonna 1918 valmistunut Hawkins-luokan raskaasta risteilijästä HMS Cavendishistä muutettu lentotukialus. She ferried British troops to Narvik in late April and escorted an evacuation convoy from Harstad on 4 June. My father, Bill Rodgers, served on HMS Vindictive from 21st of Dec 1941 until 25th of Feb 1945. The fifth and last was ordered in April 1916. [6], The Hawkins-class cruisers were protected with an armour that had a maximum thickness of 4 inches abreast the ships' magazines and a minimum thickness of 1.5 inches (38 mm). During one period, the Vindictive sustained hits every few seconds. Vindictive was thought to be too small to be an effective carrier and the financial restrictions in place after the war vitiated against such a major reconstruction. She paid off into reserve on 24 December 1919. In 1936-1937, Vindictive was converted to a training ship for cadets. British naval cadet at Osborne and Dartmouth Colleges, 1912-1916; midshipman served aboard HMS Hercules in North Sea, 1916-1918, including Battle of Jutland, 5/1916; officer served aboard HMS Neptune and HMS Vindictive in North Sea, 1918; served with Royal Navy in Baltic, 1919 Originally designed as a Hawkins class heavy cruiser and laid down under the name Cavendish. This diversionary raid distracted the defences and enabled Royal Navy Coastal Motor Boats to attack naval vessels in Kronstadt harbour. Eight days after grounding a fortuitous westerly wind began that raised the water level by 8 inches (203 mm), just enough to pull the ship free. She was re-commissioned with special complement on 16 August, 1927. He was injured and declared physically unfit to serve on 21st of Sept 1945. The ship retained her aircraft hangar and conducted trials with an aircraft catapult before she was sent to the China Station in 1926. This required a large ship to provide the necessary endurance for sustained operations away from supporting bases and high speed to catch the raiders. HMS VINDICTIVE (1) – February 1914 to December 1916, UK-out, Mediterranean, South East Coast of America Station, North Russia. This was connected by a catwalk on the port side to a landing-on deck constructed abaft the funnels, while buffer nets prevented overruns that could have collided with the superstructure. Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds (1984). In reality one bomb struck the oil tanker Tatiana, setting it on fire and killing one man. Her armament was removed and her forward superstructure was extended over the former hangar's roof. Later two stokers were caught trying to stop the fan engines. The hull form was unchanged from her cruiser design but a large hangar was added aft and a smaller hangar added forward. All rights reserved. This page was last edited on 2 November 2020, at 00:54. Photo of HMS Vindictive by Marc Ryckaert. She commissioned on 1 October and proceeded to Scapa Flow to work up, joining the fleet in the Firth of Forth only a few days before the Armistice. Her two inboard propellers were removed as were the inboard turbines; half of her boilers were removed and their compartments were converted into accommodations. [4] At maximum elevation these guns fired a 200-pound (91 kg) shell to a range of 21,114 yards (19,307 m). Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, the Director of Naval Construction, included both coal and oil-fired boilers to provide the ship with fuel no matter the supply conditions. Four ships were ordered, named after famous Elizabethan seafarers, in 1915 and the fifth and last was ordered in April 1916, named HMS Cavendish after the adventurer and circumnavigator Thomas Cavendish. For the rest of the year she conducted flying trials and exercises, including those of the Port Victoria Grain Griffin reconnaissance aircraft, of which two were lost in accidents. As a result, two battleships and the submarine depot ship Pamiat Azova were sunk. Designed as an Cavendish class heavy cruiser but redesigned as a aircraft carrier and renamed HMS Vindictive. She completed her sea trials on 21 September 1918 and reached a speed of 29.12 knots (53.93 km/h; 33.51 mph) from 63,600 shaft horsepower (47,400 kW). The design of the Hawkins-class cruisers was finalized in late 1915 and four ships were ordered in December of that year. Her first role after the conversion was completed in early 1940, however, was to transport troops during the Norwegian Campaign. The Admiralty had considered converting her to that configuration, with an island, in July 1918 while still building, but had decided to wait on the results of tests conducted with Argus evaluating different designs for the island. Com… HMS Vindictive was a British Arrogant-class cruiser built at Chatham Dockyard. from HMS Vindictive at Biorke reported that on 14/8/19 Taylor died of a fractured skull at Kolvisto. She paid off to a C. & M. Party on 10 February, 1925.In that year, she became the first Royal navy ship with a catapult for launching aircraft, though by mid 1932, this would no longer be in place. Her light AA armament had also been augmented by six Oerlikon 20 mm autocannon, three on each side of the roof of the large workshop abaft the funnel. HMS Vindictive picks up a ditched aircraft, Baltic 1919, HMS Vindictive firing party for dead pilot, Baltic 1919. Between 1923 and 1925 she was reconverted back to a cruiser. [23], In 1936–1937, Vindictive was demilitarised in accordance with the terms of the London Naval Treaty and converted to a training ship for cadets. [20], For the next several years the ship was either in reserve or used as a troop transport, until she began reconversion into a cruiser at Chatham Dockyard on 1 March 1923. She was reduced to reserve after the war and sold for scrap in 1946. It was introduced in Update 1.93 "Shark Attack". Cavendish was launched on 17 January 1918. But it’s not a story the official WW1 commemoration wants to highlight. During her time in the far east Vindictive participated in the Nanjing incident, leading a British flotilla as part of an international force to protect foreign business interests and citizens. [27] Vindictive was transferred to the South Atlantic later in the year and remained there until late 1942, when she was ordered north. [2] The original cruiser armament was reduced to four 7.5 in (190 mm) guns. S he was converted into an aircraft carrier while still building. Following the promising flight trials aboard Furious in 1917, the Admiralty decided that Cavendish should be converted and completed as an experimental aircraft carrier. Originally designed as a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser and laid down under the name Cavendish, she served in several different roles and underwent several conversions in a remarkably varied career that lasted until she was scrapped in 1946. Unbeknownst to the British the entire operation had taken place in a minefield. 65; Raven & Roberts, pp. The vessel participated in the Zeebrugge Raid. The aft funnel was removed, the aft superstructure remodelled and enlarged and her hangar converted into more accommodation space. In subsequent attacks on Kronstadt, they nearly hit Andrei Pervozvanny while she was in drydock, nearly hit a minesweeper, killing one crewman from the explosion, and hit two auxiliary ships. Her armament, including the above-water torpedo tubes, was replaced by a pair of 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns forward and a quadruple QF 2-pounder ("pom-pom") AA mount aft. HMS Vindictive was a British Arrogant-class cruiser built at Chatham Dockyard. She was launched on 9 December 1897 and completed in 1899. She was converted to her final role at Malta in 1944, departing Malta on 15 October 1944. She served on the China Station until August 1928, then joined the Atlantic Fleet. [14] On 6 July she ran aground on a shoal near Reval at speed. The aircraft were hoisted up through a hatch at the aft end of the flying-off deck by two derricks. Vindictivewas reduced to Reserve on 30 November, 1920. [5] (£8.21 million as of 2020),[6] The Admiralty had decided to abandon the idea of separate flying-off and flying-on decks in favour of flush deck carriers, and thus Vindictive was already obsolete in her brief carrier role. Edited by Hansjörg Kohler, Old Weather Transcriber, Cornaux, near Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her appearance still differed from that of her half-sisters in the Hawkins-class as she retained a large hangar as accommodation for four aircraft plus a lattice-type handling crane, and her main armament was six 7.5 in (190 mm) guns to their seven. [7], In January 1917, the Board of Admiralty reviewed the navy's aircraft carrier requirements and decided to order two ships fitted with a flying-off deck as well as a landing deck aft. The Hawkins class was a class of five heavy cruisers of the Royal Navy designed in 1915 and constructed throughout the First World War.All ships were named after Elizabethan sea captains. Placed on the dunes as a monument and there is an information plaque describing how significant HMS Vindictive's role was in the World War. At the beginning of the Second World War she was converted into a repair ship. [31] She was paid off into reserve on 8 September 1945 and was sold for scrap on 24 January 1946. ... 1917 1918 1919 April 1918 June 1918. [10], Friedman 2010, pp. The Hawkins-class, HMS Hawkins (D86), 1942 is a rank V British cruiser with a battle rating of 5.3 (AB/RB/SB). But the truth is somewhat more complex and varied. [16], Vindictive's aircraft continued to support British operations against the Bolsheviks until they left the Baltic in December, although no further missions were flown from the carrier. In July 1919, Vindictive was dispatched to the Baltic Sea with 12 aircraft to support the British activities in the Baltic in support of the White Russians and independent Baltic states. In early August 1944, the ship was damaged by a long-range, circling, "Dackel" torpedo dropped by the Luftwaffe off the coast of Normandy. [6] She commissioned on 1 October and, after briefly working up, joined the Grand Fleet's Flying Squadron on 18 October only a few weeks before the Armistice on 11 November. Aircraft Carrier, then returned to cruiser, 1924. The 193 by 57 feet (58.8 by 17.4 m) landing deck required the removal of Nos. [8], UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2013), ". They were arranged in two superfiring pairs, one each fore and aft of the superstructure, one on each broadside abreast the rear funnel, and the last was on the quarterdeck at the same level as the lower of the rear superfiring pair; they were designated 1 through 7 from front to rear. The only landing aboard the ship was made by William Wakefield on 1 November in the fleet's last operational Sopwith Pup. Website: www.naval-history.net Zeebrugge & Ostend Raids 1918. She commissioned on 1 October and proceeded to Scapa Flow to work up, joining the fleet in the Firth of Forth only a few days before the Armistice. Add to this record. [3], The main armament of the Hawkins-class cruisers consisted of seven 45-calibre 7.5 in (190 mm) Mk VI guns in pivot mounts. Read more Date of experience: March 2018 They were designed to displace 9,750 long tons (9,906 t) and had a complement of 37 officers and 672 enlisted men. Alukselle tehtiin sen uran aikana useampia muutoksia ja siten sen ura oli melko vaihteleva ennen lopullista romuttamista 1946. 51–52, Friedman 2010, p. 67; Raven & Roberts, p. 405, Head, pp. Royal Navy, HMS Vindictive Date of death: 23/04/1918 (aged 23) Cemetery: DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY Son of Charles Henry and Lucy Mary Gilkerson, … She will be followed by four other sister ships in 1919-25. She then moved to Mers el Kebir for a stint in the Mediterranean Fleet until 1944. Cyril Rudd. They shot down a helium-filled observation balloon and spotted for ships conducted shore bombardments. Steam for the turbines was provided by 12 Yarrow boilers; 8 of these were oil-fired while the remaining 4 used coal. In this role, she had a standard displacement of 10,000 long tons (10,000 t) (12,000 long tons (12,000 t) at full load) and her draught increased to 20 feet 3 inches (6.2 m).[25]. In the Autumn of 1925 she became the first Royal Navy cruiser with aircraft catapult gear:[7] her first catapult launch was on 31 October. In June 1918, she was renamed Vindictive, since it was desired to perpetuate the name of the old Arrogant-class cruiser Vindictive which had distinguished herself in the Zeebrugge Raid of April 1918 and had been sunk as a blockship at Ostend in May.[3]. Vindictive used it for the first time on 3 October when she launched a Fairey IIID floatplane. 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