Name: | EAGLE |
Type: | Aircraft Carrier |
Keel: | 19/04/1944 |
Launched: | n/a |
Completed: | n/a |
Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
Yard: | High Walker |
Yard Number: | 73 |
Dimensions: | 36800disp, 720.0 x 112.0 x 33.0(draft)ft |
Engines: | 4 x Geared turbines, Parsons Type, 152000shp |
Engines by: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 32.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 8 x 2 x 4.5ins, 8 x 6 x 40mm, 2 x 2 x 40mm, 9 x 1 x 40mm guns; |
60 x aircraft | |
History: | |
British Royal Navy | |
Broken up | |
Comments: | Member of the Audacious Class of Fleet Carriers |
08/1942: Ordered from Swan Hunter | |
12/1942: Order transferred to Vickers-Armstrongs | |
1945: Order cancelled by the Admiralty | |
Subsequently broken up on the slipway. |