Royal Navy — Aircraft carrier
F61
HMS Pretoria Castle
Service
- as HMS Pretoria Castle28 November 1939 — July 19622,105 days of the war
HMS Pretoria Castle
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Pretoria Castle
- Pennant / hull number
- F61
- Builder
- Harland & Wolff
- Launched
- 12 October 1938
- Commissioned
- 28 November 1939
- Decommissioned
- August 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped July 1962 (1962)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 23,450 long tons (23,826 t)
- Length
- 181.05 m (594 ft)
- Beam
- 23.16 m (76 ft)
- Draught
- 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Speed
- 18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
HMS Pretoria Castle was a aircraft carrier in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F61. She was built by Harland & Wolff. Launched on 12 October 1938, she entered service on 28 November 1939.
Displacement was 23,450 long tons. She measured 181.1 m (594 ft) long with a beam of 23.2 m (76 ft). Her designed speed was 18 knots.
She carried 21 aircraft. Her machinery developed 16,000 bhp.
She was in commission for 2,105 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in August 1942.
She was broken up for scrap in July 1962.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel engines, twin screw
- Power
- 16000 bhp; 3,284 NHP
- Aircraft
- 21
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Pretoria Castle on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 17631 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons