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This is: a list of Royal Navy seaplane carriers.

RN Ensign
Ships of the——Royal Navy
  • fleet aircraft carriers
  • escort carriers
  • seaplane carriers
  • amphibious assault shipping
  • battlecruisers
  • dreadnought battleships
  • pre-dreadnought battleships
  • ironclads
  • bomb vessels
  • breastwork monitors
  • corvettes and sloops
  • cruisers
  • destroyers
  • torpedo boats
  • fireships
  • frigates
  • gun-brigs
  • gunboats and gunvessels
  • mine countermeasure vessels
  • monitors
  • patrol and attack craft
  • royal yachts
  • ships of the line
  • submarines
  • support ships
  • survey vessels
  • shore establishments
  • hospitals and hospital ships
  • air stations
  • aircraft wings
  • fleets and major commands
  • squadrons and flotillas
  • 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

    HMS Campania
    Main article: Seaplane tender
    Ship Aircraft Displacement Propulsion Service Laid down Commissioned Fate HMS Ark Royal 9 7,450 long tons (7,570 t) 2 shafts
    Brown-Curtis geared turbines
    6 boilers 7 November 1913 December 1914 Sold December 1946 for conversion——to a merchant ship. HMS Empress 3 2,540 long tons (2,581 t) 3 shafts
    Parsons turbines 1906 25 August 1914 Returned to owners November 1919 HMS Engadine 4 1,676 long tons (1,703 t) 2 shafts
    Steam turbine 1910 13 August 1914 Sold back to original owners 1919. HMS Riviera 4 1,850 long tons (1,880 t) 3 shafts
    Parsons turbines
    6 boilers 1910 11 August 1914 Returned to owners 1919 HMS Campania 10 18,000 long tons (18,289 t) 2 shafts
    Steam engines 1892 17 April 1915 Sank during gale, 5 November 1918 HMS Anne 2 4,083 long tons (4,149 t) 1 shaft 1911 4 August 1915 Returned to owners 1922 HMS Raven II 2 4,678 long tons (4,753 t) 1 shaft 1911 12 June 1915 Sold for mercantile service 1923 HMS Ben-my-Chree 6 3,880 long tons (3,942 t) 3 shafts
    Steam turbines
    3 boilers 1907 3 March 1915 Sunk on 11 January 1917 by shore-based Turkish artillery fire. HMS Vindex 7 2,950 long tons (2,997 t) 3 shafts
    Steam turbines
    4 boilers 1916 1 October 1918 Scrapped 1948 HMS Manxman 8 2,540 long tons (2,581 t) 2 shafts
    Brown-Curtis geared turbines 1903 17 April 1916 Sold for Scrap 9 August 1949 HMS Nairana 7 3,547 long tons (3,604 t) 2 shafts
    Parsons geared turbines 1914 25 August 1917 Sold 1920 HMS Pegasus 9 2,540 long tons (2,581 t) 2 shafts
    Brown-Curtis geared turbines 1914 28 August 1917 HMS Albatross 9 6,350 long tons (6,452 t) 2 shafts
    Steam turbines
    4 boilers 5 May 1926 19 April 1938 HMS Vindictive 12 11,500 long tons (11,685 t) 4 shafts
    Parsons turbines
    12 boilers 29 June 1916 1 October 1918 Sold for scrap February 1946

    See also

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