|
|
| Career
| 
|
| Ordered:
|
|
| Laid down:
| 18 March 1915
|
| Launched:
| 5 February 1916
|
| Commissioned:
| January 1917
|
| Converted to aircraft carrier:
| June 1924–May 1928
|
| Fate:
| Sunk by U Boat on 17 September 1939
|
| Struck:
|
|
| General Characteristics
|
| Displacement:
| 26,518 tons full load
|
| Length:
| 786.5 feet
|
| Beam:
| 27.75 feet
|
| Draught:
|
|
| Propulsion:
| 18 Yarrow small tube boilers, Parson geared turbines producing 90,000 shp driving four shafts
|
| Speed:
| 30.5 knots
|
| Range:
| 5,860 miles at 16 knots
|
| Complement:
| 1200
|
| Armament:
| 16 4.7-inch
Four single 4-pdrs
|
| Aircraft:
| 48
|
| Motto:
|
|
HMS Courageous was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. It was converted from an unsuccessful design officially described as a "large light cruiser". It was the first major warship of the RN to be lost during World War II, being sunk by a U Boat on 17 September 1939 in the western approaches.
