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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.