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HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty , Ark Royal was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead , England, and completed in November 1938.
Ark Royal (1587), the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588; HMS Ark Royal (1914), planned as freighter, built as seaplane carrier during the First World War, renamed Pegasus in 1934; HMS Ark Royal (91), British aircraft carrier launched in 1937 which participated in the Second World War and was sunk by a U ...
The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy.
HMS Ark Royal Royal Navy: 22,600 Sunk 16 April 1942 Bab el Farag Egypt: 105 Sunk 16 April 1942 Caspia United Kingdom: 6,018 Sunk 16 April 1942 Fatouhel el Rahman Egypt: 97 Sunk 16 April 1942 FFL Vikings Free French Naval Forces: 1,150 Sunk 19 April 1942 Hefz el Rahman Egypt: 90 Sunk 22 April 1942 El Saadiah Egypt: 122 Sunk 22 April 1942 Aziza ...
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The British Royal Navy pioneered the first aircraft carrier with floatplanes, as flying boats under performed compared to traditional land based aircraft. [3] The first true aircraft carrier was HMS Argus , [ 2 ] [ 4 ] launched in late 1917 with a complement of 20 aircraft and a flight deck 550 ft (170 m) long and 68 ft (21 m) wide. [ 4 ]
Named World War II military operations involving aircraft carriers Name Navy Action Begin End Task Force Carriers 1940: Hurry: RN: Deliver Aircraft to Malta: 31 July 1940: 4 August 1940: Force H: Argus, Ark Royal: Hat: RN: Reinforce Eastern Mediterranean Fleet; Deliver Supplies to Malta: 30 August 1940: 5 September 1940: Force H & Force F: Ark ...
Oscar (known by his nickname, Unsinkable Sam, or by the Germanized spelling of his name, Oskar) was a ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships in 1941 - the German battleship Bismarck, and then the British destroyer HMS Cossack and aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.