_underway_c1950.jpeg) HMCS Magnificent circa 1950.
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Magnificent |
| Ordered | 16 October 1942 |
| Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number | 1228 |
| Laid down | 29 July 1943 |
| Launched | 16 November 1944 |
| Fate | Loaned to Canada, 1948 |
| Canada | |
| Name | Magnificent |
| Acquired | January 1945 |
| Commissioned | 21 March 1948 |
| Decommissioned | 14 June 1957 |
| Stricken | 1961 |
| Homeport | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Identification | CVL 21 |
| Motto | "We stand on guard"[1] |
| Nickname(s) | "The Maggie" |
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| Fate | Returned to UK, scrapped in Faslane, July 1965 |
| Badge | Purpure, a sun in splendour or on which a maple leaf gules[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Majestic-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement | 15,700 long tons (16,000 t) |
| Length | 698 ft (212.8 m) |
| Beam | 80 ft (24.4 m) |
| Draught | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) |
| Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Complement | 1,100 (including air group) |
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| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 37 - Fairey Firefly and Hawker Sea Fury |
HMCS Magnificent (CVL 21) was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier that served the Royal Canadian Navy from 1948–1957. Initially ordered by the Royal Navy during World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy acquired the Magnificent while waiting for another aircraft carrier to be completed to their needs and it entered service in 1948 replacing in service HMCS Warrior which had been loaned for two years by the RN.
Magnificent was generally referred to as Maggie in Canadian service. In 1956, Canada received HMCS Bonaventure and Magnificent returned to the United Kingdom in 1956, where it remained in reserve until being scrapped in 1965.
- ^ a b c Arbuckle 1987, p. 63.