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Pegasus 1921

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Pegasus (ex-Stockholm)	N8A, N9A	431	John Brown, Clydebank	1914	9.6.1917	28.8.1917	sold for BU 8.1931

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3300
Displacement full, t
Length, m	101.2
Breadth, m	13.1
Draught, m	4.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	9500
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 300
Endurance, nm(kts)	1220(20)
Armament	4 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 9 aircraft (WB.III, Short 184, Camel, Campania)
Complement	280

Air group

Year	Fighters	torpedo bombers	recon planes
1917	4 Beardmore WB.III	4 Short 184	---
late 1918	4 Camel	1 Short 184	3 Campania

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Aircraft facilities

Landplanes were stowed in forward hangar, launched from fwd deck and land ashore. Seaplanes were stowed in the aft hangar, fly-off from the water and returned by derricks.

Project history

The last of the short-sea passenger ship conversions was in many ways the most sophisticated, because she completed last. As with the Nairana landplanes were stowed in the forward hangar, and seaplanes aft, to simplify handling. The ship was bought on the stocks as SS Stockholm 27 February 1917 and renamed on 28 August 1917 after commissioning.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Since 1924 Pegasus was rated as aircraft tender until sold.

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