German aircraft carrier II

	Plan and profile drawing of the final design
Class overview
Name	II
Builders	Arsenal de Lorient
Preceded by	Jade class
Succeeded by	None
Planned	1
Cancelled	1
General characteristics
Type	Light aircraft carrier
Displacement	Design: 11,400 long tons (11,600 t)
Length	192.5 m (631 ft 7 in) (loa)
Beam	24.4 m (80 ft 1 in)
Draft	5.6 m (18 ft 4 in)
Installed power	4 × Indret water-tube boilers; 10,000 shp (7,500 kW);
Propulsion	2 × Rateau-Bretagne steam turbines; 2 × screw propellers;
Speed	32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	At 19 kn (35 km/h; 22 mph): 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi)
Armament	12 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) AA guns; 12 × 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns; 24 × 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns;
Aircraft carried	12 × Ju 87E; 11 × BF 109T;
Aviation facilities	1 × hangar; 2 × elevators;

The aircraft carrier II was a proposed conversion project for the incomplete French cruiser De Grasse. The ship was laid down in November 1938 and lay incomplete in the Arsenal de Lorient shipyard when Germany invaded France in May 1940. In 1942, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine decided to convert the cruiser into an auxiliary aircraft carrier with a capacity for twenty-three fighters and dive bombers. Work ceased in February 1943, however, due to concerns with the ship's design, a severe shortage of material and labor, and the threat of Allied bombing raids. The ship was eventually completed as an anti-aircraft cruiser in 1956 by the French Navy.