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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Joffre			A C de St-Nazaire, Penhoët	26.11.1938	---	---	BU on the stocks 6.1940
Painlevé			A C de St-Nazaire, Penhoët	---	---	---	cancelled 6.1940

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	18000
Displacement full, t	20000
Length, m	228.0 pp 236.0 oa
Breadth, m	24.6 wl 34.5 fd
Draught, m	6.60
No of shafts	4
Machinery	4 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 8 Indret boilers
Power, h. p.	125000
Max speed, kts	33
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	main belt: 105, main deck: 70 - 37, torpedo bulkhead: 45 - 25
Armament	4 x 2 - 130/45 M1932, 4 x 2 - 37/50 M1933, 7 x 4 - 13.2/76, 40 aircraft
Complement	1251

Air group

Year	Fighters	torpedo bombers
(as planned)	15 D.790	25 Br.810

Standard scale images

Aircraft facilities

 (fd - 5,600m², ha - 5,292m² / 25,716m³): Flight deck: 200.0x28.0m. Upper hangar: 195x20.8x5.0m, lower hangar: 79.2x15.6x4.4m. There were 2 lifts and no catapults.

Project history

Building of two aircraft carriers was provided by the 1938 programme.

Ships had two hangars, flight deck was shifted to a port side and was equipped with two elevators and nine arrested gears. Basing of 15 fighters and 25 torpedo bombers was supposed. It is interesting to mark, that torpedo bombers should be twin-engined. Length of flight deck was insufficient and island superstructure was disproportionate massive and long.

To beginning of war Joffre was ready on 25% and later broken up on a slipway. The second ship (Painlevé) was only ordered but never begun.

Ship protection

105mm main belt protected machinery spaces, magazines and petrol tanks, 37mm main deck was connected with its upper edge. Thickness of main deck increased to 70mm over magazines.