HMS Formidable (67)
Service
- as Formidable24 November 1940 — 12 August 19471,743 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Formidable
- Pennant / hull number
- 67
- Builder
- Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Laid down
- 17 June 1937
- Launched
- 17 August 1939
- Commissioned
- 24 November 1940
- Decommissioned
- 12 August 1947
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, January 1953 (1953)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 23,000 long tons (23,369 t)
- Length
- 225.55 m (740 ft) OA
- Beam
- 28.96 m (95 ft)
- Draught
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Speed
- 30.5 knots (56.5 km/h, 35.1 mph)
- Range
- 10,700 nmi (19,816 km)
- Complement
- 1,299
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Formidable was a Illustrious-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 67. Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland laid her keel on 17 June 1937. Launched on 17 August 1939, she entered service on 24 November 1940.
She was one of three ships of her class. The class followed the HMS Ark Royal (91) and was succeeded by the Implacable class.
Displacement was 23,000 long tons. She measured 225.6 m (740 ft) long with a beam of 29.0 m (95 ft). Her designed speed was 30.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,299.
Her main battery was 16 114 mm (4.5 in) guns in eight twin mountings. She carried 36 aircraft. 111,000 shp drove three shafts.
She was in commission for 1,743 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 12 August 1947.
She was broken up for scrap in January 1953.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 3 shafts; 3 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 111000 shp
- 6 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 8 × twin 4.5 in DP guns
- 6 × octuple 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 4.5 in
- Flight deck: 3 in
- Hangar sides and ends: 4.5 in
- Bulkheads: 2.5 in
- Aircraft
- 36–54
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Formidable (67) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Oulds D C (Lt), Official photographer — This photograph A11660 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons