Courageous 1917

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

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Name:	COURAGEOUS
Type:	Battlecruiser and later converted to Aircraft Carrier
Keel:	18/03/1915
Launched:	05/02/1916
Completed:	06/01/1917
Builder:	Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard:	High Walker
Yard Number:	895
Dimensions:	17848disp, 735.0 x 81.0 x 21.5(draft)ft
Engines:	4 x Steam turbines, SR geared, 90000shp
Engines by:	Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co, Wallsend
Propulsion:	4 x Screws, 32.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	(1917: 2 x 2 x 15.0ins, 6 x 3 x 4.0ins guns, 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes);
	(1928: 48 x aircraft, 16 x 1 x 4.7ins guns)
History:
06/01/1917	British Royal Navy
17/09/1939	Sank

Comments:	Name ship of the Courageous Class of Battlecruisers
	Originally commissioned as a Battlecruiser
	02/1917: Fitted with rails at Rosyth for laying sea mines. 11/1917: Rails removed
	06/1924 to 05/1928: Converted into an aircraft carrier at Devonport Dockyard
	All superstucture and weapons above the main deck were removed and replaced with a two storey aircraft hangar
	The top of the lower hanger also served as a small foreward flight deck
	Provided with an island and a conventional funnel. Space for carrying 48 x aircraft
	17/09/1939: Torpedoed and sunk by U-Boat U29, 200 miles SW of Ireland. 518 crew died