French aircraft carrier Painlevé

Painlevé

History
France
Name:	Painlevé
Namesake:	Paul Painlevé
Ordered:	1938
Builder:	AC de St. Nazaire Penhoet
Fate:	Planned but never laid down
General characteristics
Displacement:	20,000 tons
Length:	236 m (774 ft)
Beam:	24.5 m (80 ft)
Draught:	6.5 m (21 ft)
Propulsion:	Steam turbines; 8 boilers driving 4 shafts; 125,000 shp
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement:	1,251
Armament:	8 × 130 mm DP guns 8 × 37 mm AA guns 24 × 13.2 mm AA guns
Armour:	100 mm belt 40 to 70 inch deck
Aircraft carried:	40

Painlevé was the planned second ship of the Joffre class of aircraft carriers for the French Navy. She was named in honour of Paul Painlevé. The ship was never laid down.

Painlevé was to be built at the shipyards of AC de St. Nazaire Penhoet, but with work on the lead ship Joffre slowed and ultimately halted by the events of World War II, her keel was never laid down.

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