| French aircraft carrier Painlevé | |
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| Career (France) |  |
| Name: | Painlevé |
| Namesake: | Paul Painlevé |
| Ordered: | 1938 |
| Builder: | AC de St. Nazaire Penhoet |
| Fate: | Planned but never laid down |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 20,000 tons |
| Length: | 236 m |
| Beam: | 24.5 m |
| Draught: | 6.5 m |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines; 8 boilers driving 4 shafts; 125,000 shp |
| Speed: | 33 knots |
| Complement: | 1,251 |
| Armament: |
8 × 130 mm DP guns 8 × 37 mm AA guns 24 × 13.2 mm AA guns |
| Armour: |
100 mm belt 40 to 70 inch deck |
| Aircraft carried: | 40 |
Painlevé was the planned second ship of the Joffre class of aircraft carriers for the French Navy. She was named in honour of Paul Painlevé. The ship was never laid down.[1]
History[]
Painlevé was to be built at the shipyards of AC de St. Nazaire Penhoet, but with work on the lead ship Joffre slowed and ultimately halted by the events of World War II, her keel was never laid down.
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References[]
- ↑ Norman Polmar; Minoru Genda (2006). Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc.. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-57488-664-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=6z7quhWS-BoC&pg=PA86. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
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