NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Athene (ex-Clan Brodie)	D25	444	Greenock // John Brown, Clydebank	12/1939	1.10.1940	10/1941	sold mercantile 1946
Engadine (ex-Clan Buchanan)	D71	1356	Denny, Dumbarton	16.3.1940	26.5.1941	11/1941	stricken 8.1945, sold mercantile 1946

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	Athene: 9435 Engadine: 9190
Displacement full, t	Athene: 10890 Engadine: 10650
Length, m	148.7
Breadth, m	19.2
Draught, m	Athene: 7.01 deep load Engadine: 6.71 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE & LP Bauer-Wach turbines
Power, h. p.	8300
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	oil 985
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 120/45 BL Mk I/II, 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 4 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II
Electronic equipment	2x type 286 radars
Complement

Standard scale images

Aircraft facilities

Aircraft fuel stowage was 129,560l. Ships can carry up to 20 Hurricanes with folded wings or 40 planes with the wings removed.

Project history

They were ordered as transports, decision on conversion to aircraft transports was accepted when hulls still were on slipways. It was primary planned to built two seaplane carriers with one catapult and ten seaplanes intended for protection of transport communications. They were redesigned as aircraft transports for carrying of wheeled aircrafts already when outfitted. Ships could carry up to 40 Hurricane fighters with removed wings or 16-20 complete Hurricanes. 129,560l of aviation petrol were stored on board, this option remained from seaplane carrier design.

Ship protection

magazines had 38mm vertical and 51mm horizontal protection.

Modernizations

1942 - 1945, both: + 10 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1/1946: 1 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk VI, 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 4 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 10 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2x type 286 radars

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.