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NAeL ''Minas Gerais'' (pennant number A 11) was a operated by the ''Marinha do Brasil'' (MB, Brazilian Navy) from 1960 until 2001. The ship was laid down for the Royal Navy during World War II as , but was completed only shortly before the war's end, and did not see combat. After stints as a training vessel and Arctic research ship, the carrier was loaned to the Royal Australian Navy from 1952 to 1955. She was returned to the British, who sold her in 1956 to Brazil. The ship underwent a four-year conversion in the Netherlands to make her capable of operating heavier naval aircraft. She was commissioned into the MB as ''Minas Gerais'' (named after the state of Minas Gerais) in 1960; the first purchased by a Latin American nation, but the second to enter service, behind the Argentinian ARA ''Independencia''. Between 1987 and 1996, the carrier was unable to operate fixed-wing aircraft because of a defective catapult, and was retasked as a helicopter carrier and amphibious assault ship. ''Minas Gerais'' remained in service until 2001, when she was replaced by NAe . At the time of her decommissioning, she was the oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world, and the last operational unit of the World War II Light Fleet design. Despite attempts to preserve the carrier as a museum ship, and after several failed attempts to auction the ship off (including a listing on eBay), ''Minas Gerais'' was sold for scrap in 2004 and taken to Alang for breaking up. ==Design and construction== (詳細はSwan Hunter for the Royal Navy (RN) as HMS ''Vengeance''.〔Blackman (ed.), ''Jane's Fighting Ships (1968-69)'', p. 23〕 She was laid down on 16 November 1942, and launched on 23 February 1944.〔 Construction was completed on 15 January 1945, and ''Vengeance'' was commissioned into the RN.〔 The ''Colossus''-class carriers were intended to be 'disposable warships': they were to be operated during World War II and scrapped at the end of hostilities or within three years of entering service.〔Hobbs, in ''The Navy and the Nation'', p. 217〕 Despite this plan, the ship had a service life of over 55 years across three navies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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