HMS Courageous

Type:
Battlecruiser (a)
Class:
Builder:
Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Pennant Number:
50 (as carrier)
Ordered:
March 14, 1915
Launched:
February 5, 1916
Keel Laid:
March 18, 1915
Commissioned:


November 4, 1916
Fate:
Sunk Sept. 17, 1939 by U-29 (torpedo).

Location: North Atlantic 350 miles west of Land's End, England.
(50.10N - 14.45W)

519 crewmen were killed, 741 survivors picked up by SS Veendam and
SS Collingsworth.

*Converted into an aircraft carrier 1924-1928.
Notes
(a):
Converted into an aircraft carrier at Devonport Dockyard between 1924-1928.


Builder's Data
Page published Dec. 12, 2007