Royal Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Implacable-class aircraft carrier
Implacable class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1939–1944
- Preceded by
- Illustrious-class aircraft carrier
- Succeeded by
- Audacious-class aircraft carrier
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, full load
- 32,110 long tons (32,625 t)
- Length
- 233.48 m (766 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Complement
- 2,300
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
- Armament
- 8 × twin QF 4.5-inch dual-purpose guns
- 5 × octuple, 1 × quadruple QF 2-pdr anti-aircraft guns
- 18–21 × twin, 17–19 × single Oerlikon 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Implacable (R86) | R86 | 1944 | Scrapped 1955 |
| HMS Indefatigable (R10) | R10 | 1943 | Scrapped 1956 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Implacable-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.