Spain
Active:
- Principe de Asturias: 17,000 ton STOVL carrier in active service, commissioned 30 May 1982.
- Juan Carlos I:27,079 tonnes STOVL carrier in active service, commissioned 30 September 2010.
Retired:
- Dédalo – 11,700 ton Independence class light carrier, ex-USS Cabot, helicopters only from 1967–1976, struck 1989 and returned to United States, eventually scrapped in 2002.
Never completed:
- Spanish conversion for refloated Italian heavy cruiser Trieste, cancelled in 1951.
Read more about this topic: List Of Aircraft Carriers By Country
Famous quotes containing the word spain:
“last time I saw you was the hospital
pale skull protruding under ashen skin
blue veined unconscious girl
in an oxygen tent
the war in Spain has ended long ago
Aunt Rose”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)