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| Call Sign: | GGSL | |
| Shipyard: | Vickers-Armstrong | |
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| 1942-mar-25 | Ordered | Ordered | |||||||
| 1943-jun-01 | Laid down | Laid down as HMS Edgar, Yard no. 56 | |||||||
| 1944-mar-26 | Launched | Launched as HMS Perseus and completed as an aviation maintenance carrier, without catapults | |||||||
| 1945-oct-19 | Commissioned | Commissioned | |||||||
| 1945-nov-17 | Deployment | Deployment Ferry Departed UK to ferry fixed wing aircraft to Australia. Arrived Sydney.22 Dec 1945. | |||||||
| 1946-mar | Port Visit | Port Visit  Williamstown visit to Melbourne while returning to UK | |||||||
| 1946-jun | Into the Reserve fleet. | ||||||||
| 1949 | Refit | Refit HMD Rosyth Refit for newly designed steam catapult until 1950 | |||||||
| 1951-dec-31 | Deployment | Deployment  Philadelphia Naval Shipyard departed HMNB Rosyth for Philadelphia to demonstrate the steam catapult to US Navy. Returned to HMNB Portsmouth on 21 Mar 1952 | |||||||
| 1952-dec-12 | Deployment | Deployment  Sembawang naval base Operation Firedog departed UK with 10 Whirlwind HAR.21 of 848 NAS embarked to support forces in Borneo. Also ferried Dragonfly HR.3 WG707 and WG721 to Sembawang. Arrived in Singapore on 8 Jan 1953. | |||||||
| 1953-feb | Deployment | Deployment Departed Sembawang for UK, included ferrying of Dragonfly WG667. | |||||||
| 1953-jun-15 | Deployment | Deployment Fleet Review: Coronation Review of the Fleet as part of the Home Fleet - Portsmouth | |||||||
| 1953-sep-28 | Deployment | Deployment Sembawang naval base Departed Sembawang for UK, included ferrying of Dragonfly HR.3 WG668. | |||||||
| 1954-jan-20 | Trials | Trials embarked Whirlwind HAS.22 of 706 NAS for anti-submarine trials. | |||||||
| 1954-apr-21 | Deployment | Deployment Embarked 845 Squadron to transport it to Malta. Returned to UK Jul 1954 | |||||||
| 1955 | Refit | Refit Harland and Wolff towed to Belfast for conversion to fleet maintenance ship, but cancelled by 1957 Defence White Paper and towed to Gareloch for the Reserve. | |||||||
| 1958-may-06 | Fate: scrapped | Fate: scrapped Sold for scrap at Port Glasgow | |||||||
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