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MAJESTIC CLASS (5 ships)
HERCULES
(Sept. 22, 1945)
LEVIATHAN (June 7, 1945)
MAJESTIC (Feb. 28, 1945)
POWERFUL (Jan, 30, 1945)
TERRIBLE (Sept. 30, 1944)
Displacement: 14,000 tons (ovet 18,000 tons full load)
Complement: 1,400
Length: (pp.) 630 ft; (o.a.) 693 feet 2 in to 695 feet
Beam: 112.5 ft (across flight deck)
Draught: 21 ft 4 in (mean), 23 ft 5 in to 23 ft 7 in (max.)
Aircraft: 39 to 44
Guns:
4 - 3 pdr.
30 - 40 mm AA
Armour:
Machinery:
Parsons geared turbines. 2 shafts. S.H.P.: 40,000 = 25 kts. Boilers: 4 Admiralty 3-drum type (400 lb. working pressure, 700° maximum superheat).



LEVIATHAN, while laid up awaiting completion, is to be given preservative coating on American system to prevent corrosion.

General notes: Differences between Colossus and Majestic classes are not appreciable externally and are confined to internal accommodation on mess decks, which is of improved type in latter. All are insulated for tropical service and partially air-conditioned. Besides Colossus being lent to France as stated above, two (Magnificent and Warrior) have been transferred to Royal Canadian Navy; and two were completed as maintenance aircraft carriers Perseus and Pioneer, recorded on later page.
Constructional notes: In some of these ships, flight deck is reported to have been strenghthened to take aircraft of over 8 tons in weight. Sponsons can be dismantled to the extent of 3.5 feet on either side if necessary to allow for passage through Panama Canal.
Engineering notes: Engine-room and boiler-rooms are arranged en echelon. In Theseus, one propeller is four-bladed and one three-bladed, in order to minimise vibration.

 Name

 Builder and Machinery

 Begun

 Completed
Hercules
Leviathan
Majestic
Powerful
Terrible
Vickers-Armstrongs, Tyne
Swan Hunter
Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
Harland & Wolff
Devonport

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