French aircraft carrier Painlevé

Painlevé
History
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 (774 ft)
Beam: 24.5 m (80 ft)
Draught: 6.5 m (21 ft)
Propulsion: Steam turbines; 8 boilers driving 4 shafts; 125,000 shp
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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. Retrieved 9 September 2011.


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