As converted carriers, Courageous and Glorious displaced about 24,210 long tons normally and about 27,420 tons at deep load. They could still reach roughly 30 knots and carried an air group of about 48 aircraft. Their gun battery included sixteen single 4.7-inch weapons, with 40 mm pom-poms added during the 1930s. Those figures place the sisters between experimental early conversions and the purpose-built fleet carriers that followed, with enough speed and aviation capacity to remain operationally important in 1939.
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The converted carriers in figures
At about 27,420 tons deep load, 30 knots, and roughly 48 aircraft, the converted sisters still combined fleet speed with a substantial air group.