HMS Triumph (R16) (1944–1981) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier

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. She served in the Korean War

Korean War

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 and later, after reconstruction, as a support ship.
Triumph was laid down during World War II on 27 January 1943 at Hawthorn Leslie and Company

Hawthorn Leslie and Company

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 on the Tyne. Her construction was relatively rapid and she was launched on 2 October 1944 only a few months from the end of the war.