Royal Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Centaur-class aircraft carrier
Centaur class
The class in numbers
- 8 Planned
- 4 Completed
- 4 Cancelled
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1944-1959
- In commission
- 1953-1983 (Royal Navy)
- Preceded by
- 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier
- Succeeded by
- Invincible-class aircraft carrier
- Builders
- Harland & Wolff
- Swan Hunter
- Vickers Armstrong
- Subclasses
- HMS Hermes (R12) (completed to a modified design)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
1947 design
- Displacement, standard
- 22,471 long tons (22,832 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 27,015 long tons (27,449 t)
- Length
- 224.33 m (736 ft)
- Speed
- 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h, 32.8 mph)
- Complement
- 1,823
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
- Armament
- 32 40 mm Bofors guns (2 × 6), (8 × 2), (4 × 1)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Albion (R07) | R07 | 1954 | Scrapped 1973 |
| HMS Bulwark (R08) | R08 | 1954 | Scrapped 1984 |
| HMS Centaur (R06) | R06 | 1953 | Scrapped 1972 |
| HMS Hermes (R12) | R12 | 1959 | Scrapped 1986 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Centaur-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.