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Their half-sister Furious was the same length, but had a beam of 89 ft 0.75 in (27.1 m), [12] and an average draught of 27 ft 3 in (8.3 m) at deep load, two feet deeper than before the conversion. She displaced 22,500 long tons (22,900 t) at normal load and 26,500 long tons (26,900 t) at deep load, over 3,000 long tons more than her previous ...
Their half-sister Furious was the same length, but had a beam of 88 feet (26.8 m) and a draught of 24 feet 11 inches (7.6 m) at deep load. She displaced 19,513 long tons (19,826 t) at load and 22,890 long tons (23,257 t) at deep load. She had a metacentric height of 5.33 feet (1.6 m) at deep load. [5]
Her fifteen-inch turrets were placed into storage and reused in the Second World War for HMS Vanguard, the Royal Navy's last battleship. [26] The conversion into an aircraft carrier cost £2,025,800. [27] The ship's new design improved on her half-sister HMS Furious, which lacked an island and a conventional funnel. All superstructure, guns ...
HMS Furious was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by the First Sea Lord , Lord Fisher , the ship was very lightly armoured and designed with a main battery of only two 18-inch (457 mm) guns .
Their half-sister HMS Furious was designed with a pair of 18-inch (457 mm) guns, the largest guns ever fitted on a ship of the Royal Navy, but was modified during construction to take a flying-off deck and hangar in lieu of her forward turret and barbette. After some patrols in the North Sea her rear turret was removed and another flight deck ...
Half-sister refers to a ship of the same class but with some significant differences. One example of half-sisters are the First World War-era British Courageous -class battlecruisers where the first two ships had four 15-inch (381 mm) guns, but the last ship, HMS Furious , had two 18-inch (457 mm) guns instead.
The 18-inch gun had its genesis in the insistence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiral Fisher, for the biggest possible gun mounted on the fastest possible ship.He conceived of what he called "large light cruisers" carrying four 15-inch (380 mm) guns, which became the Courageous class, but he wanted their half-sister Furious to carry an even bigger gun. [2]
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