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Unicorn 1951

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Unicorn	I72, 1948- R72, 1953- A195	1031	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	29.6.1939	20.11.1941	12.3.1943	stricken 1958, sold for BU 6.1959

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	14750
Displacement full, t	20300
Length, m	171.9 pp 196.9 oa
Breadth, m	27.4 wl
Draught, m	7.32 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	24
Fuel, t	3157 oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	11000(13.5)
Armour, mm	flight deck: 51, box-shaped protection: 76 - 51, anti-torpedo bulkhead: 36
Armament	4 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 4 x 4 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 35 aircraft (Fulmar, Seafire, Martlet, Corsair fighters, Swordfish, Albacore, Barracuda, Tarpon torpedo bombers)
Electronic equipment	type 281B, type 282, type 285 radars
Complement	1200

Air group

Year	Fighters	torpedo-bombers
5.1943	---	18 Swordfish
7.1943	10 Seafire	13 Swordfish
9.1943	17 Wildcat, 38 Seafire	3 Swordfish

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UNICORN light fleet aircraft carrier (1943)