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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Malta		624	John Brown, Clydebank	---	---	---	cancelled 1.1946
Gibraltar		82	Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	---	---	---	cancelled 10.1945
New Zealand		1304	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	---	---	---	cancelled 1.1946
Africa		722	Fairfield, Govan	---	---	---	cancelled 10.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	46900
Displacement full, t	56800
Length, m	249.9 pp 279.3 oa
Breadth, m	35.4 wl 41.5 fd
Draught, m	10.5 deep load
No of shafts	4
Machinery	4 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 8 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	200000
Max speed, kts	32.5
Fuel, t	about 7500 oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	?
Armour, mm	belt and bulkheads: 114 - 38, flight deck: 25
Armament	8 x 2 - 114/45 QF Mk V, 8 x 6 - 40/56 Bofors Mk X, 7 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III, 81 aircraft (Seafire, Firefly, Sea Hornet, Sea Fury fighters, Barracuda, Firebrand torpedo bombers)
Electronic equipment	radars
Complement	2780/3535

Standard scale images

Aircraft facilities

 (fd - 10,251m², ha - 5,300m² / 28,090m³): Flight deck: 247x41.5m. Hangar was 5.3m in height and had useful area 5300m2. There were 2 centreline lifts (13.6t, 16.5x14m) and 2 deck edge lifts (13.6t, 17.1x10.7m). There were 2 catapults BH-V (13.6t plane was launched at 139km/h).

Project history

Malta and New Zealand were estimated for completion in 1950-1951. Ships would had open hangars, unprotected flight deck designed as superstructure.

Protection

 There was an armoured hangar deck, magazines and steering gear had up to 152mm local protection. Underwater protection was a modification of previous designs, was 6.4m deep and can resist to explosion of 908kg TNT.

Many thanks for Borys Estrin for additional information.