HMS Eagle (12)
Quick Facts
- Ship Name
- HMS Eagle
- Type
- Aircraft Carrier
- Class
- Audacious-class aircraft carrier
- Pennant Number
- 12
- Launched
- 1946
- Built at
- Harland and Wolff
- Commissioned
- 1951
- Armament
- Carrier air group
- Propulsion
- Steam turbines
- Role
- Aircraft carrier
- Notable for
- Large postwar carrier
- Fate
- Scrapped in 1978
- Status
- Decommissioned
HMS Eagle was one of the largest British aircraft carriers of the postwar era and played an important role during the Cold War.