Specifications
Builder: Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipbuilders Wallsend-on-Tyne
Displacement: 117,210 tons
Length (Overall): 528ft 6in
Beam: 68ft
Flight deck: 495ft x 60ft mild steel plate
Propulsion: 2 Doxford diesels driving 2 shafts
Speed: 17 knots
A/C Capacity: 21
Hangar: 231ft x 61ft x 17ft 6in
A/C lifts: 1, aft, 45ft long x 34ft wide
Arrestor wires: 8 with 2 barriers
Catapult: None
Armament: 1 twin 4in QF Mk XVI HA, 4 quadruple 2 pounder "pom-pom", 8 twin 20mm Oerlikon
Crew Complement: 554
Commanding Officers:
Capt. H.T.T. Bayliss RN DSO
Sep 43 - Jun 44
Cdr. J. D. L.
Williams RN DSC
Jun 44 - Mar 46
Squadrons:
784B
April 1944
Fulmar II
811
Sept-Dec 44
Swordfish II/
Wildcat V
825
Dec 43-Jan 45
Swordfish I/II
813
April-May 1945
Swordfish III
/Wildcat VI
1790
June-Aug 1945
Firefly INF
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