| Name: | EAGLE |
| Type: | Aircraft Carrier |
| Keel: | 22/01/1913 |
| Launched: | 08/06/1918 |
| Completed: | 13/04/1920 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 858 |
| Dimensions: | 22600disp, 26400dwt, 667.5 x 92.7 x 24.7(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, 2 x Brown-Curtis (HP), 2 x Parsons (LP), 55000shp |
| Engines by: | J Brown & Co, Clydebank & Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 24.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 6 x 1 x 6.0ins, 2 x 1 x 3.0ins guns, 21 x Hawker Sea Hurricane aircraft |
| History: | |
| 13/04/1920 | British Royal Navy |
| 11/08/1942 | Sank |
| Comments: | Laid down as Chilean battleship ALMIRANTE COCHRANE but work ceased in 1914 |
| 1917: Purchased by the Admiralty, converted to an aircraft carrier; renamed EAGLE | |
| 1920 to 1923: Further modifications by HM Dockyard at Portsmouth | |
| 11/08/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by the German U-boat U73 while escorting a convoy to Malta during Operation Pedestal |
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