Aircraft carrier class
HMS Ark Royal (91)
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Preceded by
- Courageous-class aircraft carrier
- Succeeded by
- Illustrious-class aircraft carrier
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 22,000 long tons (22,353 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 27,720 long tons (28,165 t)
- Length
- 243.84 m (800 ft) OA
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Complement
- 1,580
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
- Armament
- 8 × twin 4.5 in DP guns
- 4 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 8 × quadruple .50 in AA MGs
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Ark Royal (91) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.