Bonaventure (Canada) 1968
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Hercules | R49 | Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne | 12/10/1943 | 22/9/1945 | --- // 4/3/1961 | to India 1/1957 (Vikrant) |
| Leviathan | Swan Hunter, Wallsend | 18/10/1943 | 7/6/1945 | --- | not completed, BU 1961 | |
| Magnificent | R36 | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | 29/7/1943 | 16/11/1944 | --- // 21/5/1948 // 6/1957 | to Canada 4/1948 - 6/1957, stricken 1961 |
| Majestic | R77 | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 15/4/1943 | 28/2/1945 | --- // 8/11/1955 | to Australia 1949 (Melbourne) |
| Powerful | R95 | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | 27/11/1943 | 27/2/1945 | --- // 17/1/1957 | to Canada 1952 (Bonaventure) |
| Terrible | R17 | Devonport DYd | 19/4/1943 | 30/9/1944 | --- // 5/2/1949 | to Australia 12/1948 (Sydney) |
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Displacement standard, t |
14000 |
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Displacement full, t |
17780 |
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Length, m |
192.0 pp 211.8 oa |
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Breadth, m |
24.4 |
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Draught, m |
7.01 deep load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
40000 |
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Max speed, kn |
25 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 3000 |
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Armament |
6 x 4 - 40/39 pompom, 19 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 37 aircraft (Seafire, Firefly, Sea Hornet, Sea Fury fighters, Firebrand torpedo bombers) |
| Sensors |
type 79B, 281B radars, type 144 sonar |
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Complement |
1300 |
Aircraft facilities (fd - 5,131m², ha - 2,142m² / 11,355m³): Flight deck: 210.3 x 24.4m; hangar: 135.6 x 15.8 x 5.3m. Two lifts: 16.5 x 10.4m, 6.8t. 1 catapult BH-III (6.4t plane launched at122 km/h). Aircraft fuel stowage: 341,000l.
Ship project history: Improved version of war-built Colossus class with strengthened flight deck and reduced fuel and petrol stowage. Terrible and Magnificent were sold to Canada and Australia and completed by original design. Other ships were completed with many modifications. Incomplete Leviathan was cannibalised to provide spares for sisterships.
Protection: There were mantlets around aircraft torpedoes warheads rooms only. Their thickness was 10mm. Longitudinal watertight bulkheads covered the machinery.
Magnificent 1957
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