HMCS Bonaventure
Service
- as Bonaventure17 January 1957 — 3 July 1970
- Name
- HMCS Bonaventure
- Namesake
- Saint Bonaventure
- Builder
- Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Laid down
- 27 November 1943
- Launched
- 27 February 1945
- Commissioned
- 17 January 1957
- Decommissioned
- 3 July 1970
- Fate
- Broken up in Taiwan 1971 (1971)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 16,000 long tons (16,257 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 20,000 long tons (20,321 t)
- Length
- 214.58 m (704 ft)
- Beam
- 24.35 m (79.9 ft)
- Draught
- 7.47 m (24.5 ft)
- Speed
- 24.5 knots (45.4 km/h, 28.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,200
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMCS Bonaventure was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier, operated by the Royal Canadian Navy. The ship was named after Saint Bonaventure. Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland laid her keel on 27 November 1943. Launched on 27 February 1945, she entered service on 17 January 1957.
Four ships of the class were built. The Centaur-class aircraft carrier followed.
Displacement was 16,000 long tons standard and 20,000 long tons at full load. She measured 214.6 m (704 ft) long with a beam of 24.4 m (80 ft). Her designed speed was 24.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,200.
Her main battery was four 76 mm (3 in) guns. She carried 34 aircraft.
She was decommissioned on 3 July 1970.
She was broken up for scrap in 1971.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines, four Admiralty 3-drum type 350 psi boilers, two shafts; 40000 hp
- Armament
- 4 × 3 in/50-calibre twin-mounted guns
- 8 × Bofors 40 mm guns
- Aircraft
- 34 including 16 × McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee jet fighters
- Grummann CS2F Tracker ASW
- Sikorsky HO4S ASW helicopters
- Sikorsky CHSS-2 Sea King ASW helicopter
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMCS Bonaventure on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.037.050 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons