HMS Courageous (50)

Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	18 March 1915
Launched:	5 February 1916
Commissioned:	January 1917
Converted to aircraft carrier:	June 1924–May 1928
Fate:	Sunk by U Boat on 17 September 1939
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	26,518 tons full load
Length:	786.5 feet
Beam:	27.75 feet
Draught:
Propulsion:	18 Yarrow small tube boilers, Parson geared turbines producing 90,000 shp driving four shafts
Speed:	30.5 knots
Range:	5,860 miles at 16 knots
Complement:	1200
Armament:	16 4.7-inch Four single 4-pdrs
Aircraft:	48
Motto:

HMS Courageous was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. It was converted from an unsuccessful design officially described as a "large light cruiser". It was the first major warship of the RN to be lost during World War II, being sunk by a U Boat on 17 September 1939 in the western approaches.

Glorious-class aircraft carrier
Glorious | Courageous

List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy

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