Aircraft carrier class
French aircraft carrier Béarn
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Preceded by
- None
- Succeeded by
- Joffre-class aircraft carrier (planned)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As completed
- Displacement, standard
- 22,146 long tons (22,501 t)
- Length
- 182.5 m (598.8 ft) OA
- Speed
- 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h, 24.7 mph)
- Complement
- 875
- Main gun
- 155 mm (6.1 in)
- Armament
- 8 × single 155 mm guns
- 6 × single 75 mm AA guns
- 8 × single 37 mm AA guns
- 12 × single 8 mm machine guns
- 4 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
Sources
- Facts harvested from French aircraft carrier Béarn on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.