Royal Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Courageous-class aircraft carrier
Courageous class
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
- 2 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1921–1929
- Preceded by
- HMS Eagle (1918)
- Succeeded by
- HMS Ark Royal (91)
- Subclasses
- HMS Furious (47)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Glorious and Courageous as converted
- Displacement, standard
- 24,210 long tons (24,598 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 26,990 long tons (27,423 t)
- Length
- 239.57 m (786 ft) OA
- Speed
- 30 knots (55.6 km/h, 34.5 mph)
- Complement
- 814
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 16 × single 4.7 in anti-aircraft (AA) guns
Furious as converted
- Displacement, standard
- 22,500 long tons (22,861 t)
- Length
- 239.57 m (786 ft) OA
- Speed
- 30 knots (55.6 km/h, 34.5 mph)
- Complement
- 738
- Main gun
- 140 mm (5.5 in)
- Armament
- 10 × single 5.5 in guns
- 6 × single 4 in AA guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Courageous (50) | 50 | 1916 | Sunk 1939 |
| HMS Furious (47) | 47 | 1917 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Glorious | 1917 | Sunk 1940 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Courageous-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.