Béarn was long between perpendiculars and long overall. She had a beam of at the waterlineJordan 2020, p. 14 and at the flight deck. She displaced at standard load and at full load, which gave her a draft of .Jordan 2011, p. 181 A retractable, four-story charthouse was installed at the forward end of the flight deck; when retracted there were views forward and to the sides underneath the flight deck. Including the airgroup, her crew numbered 45 officers and 830 enlisted men.Jordan 2020, pp. 14, 17–18
