French aircraft carrier Painleve
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| Career France |  |
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| Builder: | AC de St. Nazaire Penhoet |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | |
| Status: | 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: | 4 twin 5.1 inch DP guns; 4 twin 37 mm AA guns; 6 quad 13.2 mm machine guns |
| Armor: | 4 inch belt; 1.5 to 2.34 inch deck |
| Aircraft carried: | 40 |
Painleve was the planned second ship of the Joffre class of aircraft carriers for the French Navy. The ship was never laid down.
[edit] History
Painleve 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.
[edit] See also
- List of aircraft carriers
- Joffre, sister-ship to Painleve
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