Editing Centaur-class aircraft carrier (section)

===''Centaur''===
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''Centaur'' was the first ship completed and the only one completed to the original design. She was ordered from [[Harland & Wolff]] on 12 July 1943 and laid down on 30 May 1944. Construction was halted for two years. The ship was completed on 1 September 1953 and commissioned on 17 September. An interim 5.5-degree angled deck was fitted at [[HMNB Portsmouth|Portsmouth Dockyard]] from October 1953 to May 1954.<ref name="hobbs_2014_ch25"/> ''Centaur'' underwent a limited modernisation refit{{sfn|Friedman|1988|p=312}} from September 1956 to September 1958 during which the hydraulic catapults were replaced by BS-4 steam catapults;{{sfn|Friedman|1988|p=267}} features required to operate modern strike aircraft, like a fully angled flight deck, were not fitted due to yard capacity issues.{{sfn|Friedman|1988|p=312}} Afterwards, she was limited to mainly Sea Vixen fighters and [[Fairey Gannet]] [[anti-submarine warfare]] (ASW) aircraft.<ref name="hobbs_2014_ch25"/>{{sfn|Friedman|1988|p=312}}

''Centaur'' operated as an aircraft carrier and a helicopter assault ship during the suppression of the [[Tanganyika Rifles]] in 1964.<ref name="hobbs_2014_ch25"/>{{sfn|Friedman|1988|p=346}} She decommissioned for the last time on 27 September 1965 and became an accommodation ship for the remainder of her life.<ref name="hobbs_2014_ch25"/> Plans to convert the ship into a helicopter carrier were cancelled in 1966.{{sfn|Friedman|1988|p=346}}<ref name="hobbs_2014_ch25"/> The hulk was sold for scrapping on 11 August 1972.<ref name="hobbs_2014_ch25"/>