Albatros 1/1250 ALK678 HMCS Bonaventure CVL 22 Aircraft carrier Model

HMCS BONAVENTURE (CVL 22) Aircraft carrier and flagship of the Canadian Navy. Originally laid down in England in 1943 as HMS *Powerful*—a *Majestic*-class carrier—she was completed by 1957, featuring an angled flight deck, a steam catapult, and two elevators, and was commissioned into the Canadian Navy as HMCS *Bonaventure* (nicknamed "Bonnie"). Specifications: flight deck length 214.58 m, width 34.29 m, displacement 19,920 tonnes, speed 25 knots, twin-screw propulsion; crew of 1,200 (1,370 in wartime) and approximately 34 aircraft on board. Armament: four twin 76mm guns and eight 40mm Bofors guns. Cost-cutting measures led to the carrier's decommissioning; while at sea, she consumed one-quarter of the naval budget at the time. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1971.