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 |
| Bunkerage | 2000 tons diesel fuel 20,000 gallons (75,700 liters) aviation gasoline |
| 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 was powered by 6-cylinder Burmeister & Wain diesel engines
driving two shafts and had a steel flight deck, but no catapult. Her
hangar deck was small compared with U.S. escort carrier designs,
permitting 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
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia (c) 2007-2008 by Kent G. Budge. Index
