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spidge · 09-11-2007, 05:47 AM

From: http://www.btinternet.com/~a.c.walton/navy/rn-cv1.html

Eagle Class

Fleet Carrier (CV)

eagle1.jpg

Displacement: 22,200 tons standard ; 27,229 tons full load
Dimensions: 627 pp, 667.5 oa x 105.1 x 26.5 feet
Propulsion: Steam Turbines (32 Yarrow boilers, 4 shafts, Parsons geared turbines), 55,000 shp.
Speed: 24 knots
Range: 4,000 nmiles at 18 knots
Compliment: 834 (including air group)
Aircraft: 24
Guns: 9 x 6 inch ; 5 x 4 inch ; 4 x 3 pdr

Converted form partially built Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane. Conversion, first to a sea-plane carrier and then to a strike carrier, was started during WWI but slowed when it became clear that the ship could not be completed before the end of the war. It was decided to continue with the conversion 24 September 1920. The ship was eventually completed with a full length flight deck and a large starboard island.

HMS Eagle

Built by Armstrong Whitworth. Laid down 20 February 1913. Launched 8 June 1918. Commissioned 26 February 1924. Sunk 11 August 1942 by 4 torpedoes from German submarine U73 while escorting a convoy to Malta (operation 'Pedestal').

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spidge Super Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 3,245 You're Top Poster: #3 Awards Showcase Total Awards: 6	British Aircraft Carrier HMS Eagle From: http://www.btinternet.com/~a.c.walton/navy/rn-cv1.html Eagle Class Fleet Carrier (CV) eagle1.jpg Displacement: 22,200 tons standard ; 27,229 tons full load Dimensions: 627 pp, 667.5 oa x 105.1 x 26.5 feet Propulsion: Steam Turbines (32 Yarrow boilers, 4 shafts, Parsons geared turbines), 55,000 shp. Speed: 24 knots Range: 4,000 nmiles at 18 knots Compliment: 834 (including air group) Aircraft: 24 Guns: 9 x 6 inch ; 5 x 4 inch ; 4 x 3 pdr Converted form partially built Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane. Conversion, first to a sea-plane carrier and then to a strike carrier, was started during WWI but slowed when it became clear that the ship could not be completed before the end of the war. It was decided to continue with the conversion 24 September 1920. The ship was eventually completed with a full length flight deck and a large starboard island. HMS Eagle Built by Armstrong Whitworth. Laid down 20 February 1913. Launched 8 June 1918. Commissioned 26 February 1924. Sunk 11 August 1942 by 4 torpedoes from German submarine U73 while escorting a convoy to Malta (operation 'Pedestal'). __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 09-11-2007 at 05:52 AM.