List of seaplane carriers of the Royal Navy

This is a list of Royal Navy seaplane carriers.

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Ships of the Royal Navy
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    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
    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 a 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