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Fleet Air Arm
Museum. Via uboat.net.
| Tonnage | 11,800 tons standard |
| Dimensions | 512'9" by 66'6" by 26'1" 156.3m by 20.3m by 8.0m |
| Maximum speed | 18 knots |
| Complement | 700 |
| Aircraft | 490' (149.4m) flight deck 1 elevator 10 aircraft |
| Armament | 1x2 4"/45
dual-purpose guns 10x2, 4x1 20mm AA guns |
| Machinery |
2-shaft 6-cylinder Burmeister
& Wain diesel (12,000 bhp) |
| Bunkerage | 2000 tons diesel fuel 20,000 gallons (75,700 liters) aviation gasoline |
| Sensors |
Type 272 surface search
radar Type 281 air search radar Type 127 sonar |
| Ammunition cargo |
10 18" torpedoes 36 500 lb SAP bombs 96 250 lb SAP bombs 144 Mark XI depth charges |
The Activity
was
completed in 1942 and was a conversion of the fast refrigerator ship Telemachus.
She had a steel flight
deck, but no catapult. Though tall at 21 feet (7m), her
hangar deck was less than 100 feet (30m) long, small compared with U.S. escort carrier designs.
This permitted only a very small air group. The air group varied from
six torpedo planes and
four fighters to four torpedo
planes and
six fighters.
She saw service in the Arctic before being sent to
the Far East in 1945 with replacement aircraft.
References
Gogin (2009; accessed 2012-11-30)
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