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''Clemenceau'', often affectionately called "le Clem", was the French Navy's sixth aircraft carrier and the lead ship of her class. She served from 1961 to 1997. She was the second French warship to be named after Georges Clemenceau, the first being a laid down in 1939 but never finished. She was dismantled and recycled in 2009. The ''Clemenceau''-class aircraft carriers are of conventional CATOBAR design. The landing area is long by wide; it is angled at 8 degrees off of the ship's axis. The flight deck is long. The forward aircraft elevator is to starboard, and the rear elevator is positioned on the deck edge to save hangar space. The forward of two catapults is at the bow to port, the aft catapult is on the angled landing deck. The hangar deck dimensions are by - with overhead. ==History== The development of ''Clemenceau'' represented France's effort to produce its own class of multi-role aircraft carriers to replace the American and British ships provided at the end of World War II. The ship was a small but effective design, using elements of United States carrier design, but to a smaller scale. The vessels were given relatively heavy gun armament for their size, and some stability problems were encountered which required bulging the hull. ''Clemenceau'' went through a major refit from September 1977 to November 1978. She was again refitted with new defensive systems from 1 September 1985 to 31 August 1987, including replacement of four of the 100 mm guns with a pair of Crotale surface-to-air missile launchers. ''Clemenceau'' and her sister ship served as the mainstays of the French fleet. During her career, ''Clemenceau'' sailed more than in 3,125 days at sea, all over the world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R98)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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