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HMS Implacable (R86)
HMS ''Implacable'' was an built for the Royal Navy during World War II. Upon completion in 1944, she was initially assigned to the Home Fleet and attacked targets in Norway for the rest of the year. She was subsequently assigned to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) where she attacked the Japanese naval base at Truk and targets in the Japanese Home Islands in 1945. The ship was used to repatriate liberated Allied prisoners of war (PoWs) and soldiers after the Japanese surrender, for the rest of the year. ''Implacable'' returned home in 1946 and became the Home Fleet's deck-landing training carrier, a role that lasted until 1950. She briefly served as the flagship of Home Fleet in 1950. During this time she participated in many exercises and made a number of port visits in Western Europe. She was placed in reserve in 1950 and converted into a training ship in 1952, and served as flagship of the Home Fleet Training Squadron. The ship was considered for a major modernisation in 1951–52, but this was rejected as too expensive and time-consuming. ''Implacable'' was decommissioned in 1954 and sold for scrap the following year.
==Design and description==
The ''Implacable'' class had its origin as an improved version of the ''Illustrious''-class aircraft carriers for the 1938 Naval Programme. They were designed to be faster, and to carry an additional dozen aircraft at the expense of reduced armour protection to remain within the available from the tonnage allowed by the Washington Naval Treaty.〔Friedman, p. 141〕 ''Implacable'' was long overall and at the waterline. Her beam was 〔Friedman, p. 366〕 at the waterline and she had a draught of at deep load. The ''Implacable''-class ships were significantly overweight and displaced at deep load.〔Brown 1977, p. 49〕 The ships had metacentric heights of at light load and at deep load as completed.〔Friedman, p. 151〕 ''Implacable''s complement was approximately 2,300 officers and enlisted men in 1945.〔Hobbs 2013, p. 109〕
The ships had four Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one shaft, using steam supplied by eight Admiralty 3-drum boilers.〔Chesneau 1980, p. 20〕 The turbines were designed to produce a total of , enough to give them a maximum speed of .〔Friedman, p. 367〕 On sea trials, ''Implacable'' reached speeds of with . She carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave her a range of at .〔
The armoured flight deck had a maximum width of . A single hydraulic aircraft catapult was fitted on the forward part of the flight deck. The ''Implacable''-class carriers were equipped with two lifts on the centreline, the forward of which measured and served only the upper hangar, and the aft lift () which served both hangars. The upper hangar was long and the lower hangar was long; both had a maximum width of . Both hangars had a height of only 14 feet which precluded storage of Lend-Lease Vought F4U Corsair fighters as well as many post-war aircraft and helicopters. Designed to stow 48 aircraft in their hangars, the use of a permanent deck park allowed the ''Implacable'' class to accommodate up to 81 aircraft. The additional crewmen, maintenance personnel and facilities needed to support these aircraft were housed in the lower hangar. The ships were provided with of aviation gasoline.〔Brown 1977, pp. 48–49; Friedman, p. 144〕
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