French aircraft carrier Painlevé
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France | |
Name: | Painlevé |
Namesake: | Paul Painlevé |
Ordered: | 1938 |
Builder: | AC de St. Nazaire Penhoet |
Fate: | Planned but never laid down |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 20,000 tons |
Length: | 236 m (774 ft) |
Beam: | 24.5 m (80 ft) |
Draught: | 6.5 m (21 ft) |
Propulsion: | Steam turbines; 8 boilers driving 4 shafts; 125,000 shp |
Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Complement: | 1,251 |
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Aircraft carried: | 40 |
Painlevé was the planned second ship of the Joffre class of aircraft carriers for the French Navy. She was named in honour of Paul Painlevé. The ship was never laid down.[1]
History
Painlevé was to be built at the shipyards of AC de St. Nazaire Penhoet, but with work on the lead ship Joffre slowed and ultimately halted by the events of World War II, her keel was never laid down.
See also
References
- ↑ Norman Polmar; Minoru Genda (2006). Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-57488-664-1. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
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