This is a list of Royal Navy seaplane carriers.
Key Main guns The number and type of the main battery guns Displacement Ship displacement at full combat load Propulsion Number of shafts, type of propulsion system, and top speed generated Service The dates work began and finished on the ship and its ultimate fate Laid down The date the keel began to be assembled Commissioned The date the ship was commissioned
Ships
Ship Aircraft Displacement Propulsion Service Laid downCommissionedFate 9 2 shaftsBrown-Curtis geared turbines6 boilers7 November 1913December 1914Sold December 1946 for conversion to a merchant ship. 3 3 shaftsParsons turbines190625 August 1914Returned to owners November 1919 42 shaftsSteam turbine191013 August 1914Sold back to original owners 1919.4 3 shaftsParsons turbines6 boilers191011 August 1914Returned to owners 1919 102 shaftsSteam engines189217 April 1915Sank during a gale, 5 November 1918 21 shaft19114 August 1915Returned to owners 1922 21 shaft191112 June 1915Sold for mercantile service 192363 shaftsSteam turbines3 boilers19073 March 1915Sunk on 11 January 1917 by shore-based Turkish artillery fire. 7 3 shaftsSteam turbines4 boilers19161 October 1918Scrapped 1948 82 shaftsBrown-Curtis geared turbines190317 April 1916Sold for Scrap 9 August 1949 72 shaftsParsons geared turbines 191425 August 1917Sold 1920 92 shaftsBrown-Curtis geared turbines191428 August 1917 HMS Albatross92 shaftsSteam turbines4 boilers 5 May 192619 April 1938 124 shaftsParsons turbines12 boilers29 June 19161 October 1918Sold for scrap February 1946
See also HMS M2 – M-class submarine converted to carry a seaplane in 1927
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