This is a list of Royal Navy seaplane carriers.
This is a list of Royal Navy seaplane carriers.
| 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 |
| 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 (11,700 t) | 4 shafts Parsons turbines 12 boilers | 29 June 1916 | 1 October 1918 | Sold for scrap February 1946 |
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