HMS Majestic (77)
HMAS Melbourne (21)

Type:
Aircraft Carrier
Class:
Majestic
Builder:
Vickers Armstrong Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
Pennant Number:
77 (RN)
21 (RAN)
Ordered:
August 7, 1942
Commissioned:
October 28, 1955
Keel Laid:
April 13, 1943
Decommissioned:
June 30, 1982
Launched:
February 28, 1945
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:
Sold for scrap in Feb. 1985 to China United Shipbuilding Company Ltd. and scrapped in Dalian, China.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
695' / 690' (flight deck)
Engines:
2 Parsons single reduction geared turbines
Beam:
80' 3" / 106' (flight deck)
Boilers:
4 Admiralty three drum type
Draft:
26'
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
15,700 std. / 19,500 full
SHP:
40,000
Crew:
1,300 (including air arm)
Speed:
23 knots (full)
Aircraft:
48
Range:
12,000 NM @ 14 knots


Notes
Launched as HMS Majestic.
Construction suspended in 1945, transferred to the RAN in 1947, construction
restarted in 1949.
Feb. 10, 1964:
Rammed and sunk the HMAS Voyager D-04, 82 crewmen on Voyager were killed.
June 3, 1969:
Rammed and sunk the USS Frank E. Evans DD-754, 74 crewmen on the Evans were killed.


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