Aircraft carrier class
German aircraft carrier I (1942)
The class in numbers
- 1 Planned
- 1 Cancelled
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Preceded by
- Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier
- Succeeded by
- Jade-class aircraft carrier
- Builders
- Blohm & Voss
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 43,305 long tons (44,000 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 55,608 long tons (56,500 t)
- Length
- 291.5 m (956.4 ft)
- Speed
- 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h, 30.5 mph)
- Main gun
- 105 mm (4.1 in)
- Armament
- 12 × 10.5 cm AA guns
- 20 × 37 mm AA guns
- 28–36 × 20 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from German aircraft carrier I (1942) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.