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Magnificent 1957

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Terrible	93		Devonport DYd	19.4.1943	30.9.1944	5.2.1949 // ---	to Australia before completion12/1948 (Sydney)
Magnificent	21, 1948- R36	1228	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	29.7.1943	16.11.1944	21.5.1948 // 6.1957	to Canada before completion 4.1948 - 6.1957, stricken 1961
Powerful	95	1229	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	27.11.1943	27.2.1945	17.1.1957 // ---	to Canada before completion 1952 (Bonaventure)
Majestic	77	885	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	15.4.1943	28.2.1945	8.11.1955 // ---	to Australia before completion 1949 (Melbourne)
Hercules	49	61	Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	12.10.1943	22.9.1945	4.3.1961 // ---	to India before completion 1.1957 (Vikrant)
Leviathan	97	1703	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	18.10.1943	7.6.1945	---	suspended 5.1946, BU incomplete 1961

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	14000
Displacement full, t	17780
Length, m	192.0 pp 211.8 oa
Breadth, m	24.4
Draught, m	7.01 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	40000
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	oil 3000
Endurance, nm(kts)	12000(14)
Armament	19 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 6 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 37 aircraft (Seafire, Firefly, Sea Hornet, Sea Fury fighters, Firebrand torpedo bombers)
Electronic equipment	type 79B, type 281B radars, type 144 sonar
Complement	1300

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Aircraft facilities(fd - 5,131m², ha - 2,142m² / 11,355m³)

 (fd - 5,131m², ha - 2,142m² / 11,355m³): Flight deck: 210.3x24.4m; hangar: 135.6x15.8x 5.3m. Two lifts: 16.5x10.4m, 6.8t. 1 catapult BH-III (6.4t plane was launched at 122 km/h). Aircraft fuel stowage: 341,000l.

Project history

Improved version of war-built Colossus class with strengthened flight deck and reduced fuel and petrol stowage. Terrible and Magnificent were sold to Canada and Australia and completed under original design. Other ships were completed with many modifications. Incomplete Leviathan was cannibalized to provide spares for sister-ships.

Protection

There were mantlets around aircraft torpedoes warheads rooms only. Their thickness was 10mm. Longitudinal watertight bulkheads covered the machinery.

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

Many thanks for Borys Estrin for additional information.