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HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction when the First World War began and became the first aircraft carrier with a full-length flight deck that allowed wheeled aircraft to take off and land.
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] The last aircraft carrier sunk in wartime was the Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi, in Kure Harbour in July 1945.
The first full-length flat deck, HMS Argus in 1918 The first ship to have a full-length flat deck was HMS Argus , the conversion of which was completed in September 1918. The United States Navy did not follow suit until 1920, when the conversion of USS Langley , an experimental ship which did not count against America's carrier tonnage, was ...
HMS Furious in 1918 – Note forward flying off deck, and original cruiser superstructure. HMS Argus in 1918 – the world's first full-flight-deck aircraft carrier. USS Ronald Reagan in 2005. In less than 100 years aircraft carriers have developed into a powerful tool for the projection of power in pursuit of national interests.
The HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. It changed naval history by being the first aircraft carrier with a full-length flight deck, from which ...
HMS Argus was a steamship that was built in Scotland in 1904 as a cutter and fishery protection ship for the His Majesty's Coast Guard, and later served in the Royal Navy as HMS Argon. After the First World War she was converted into a passenger ferry, serving first the Isles of Scilly as Peninnis and then in the Channel Islands as Riduna.
When war broke out in 1914, work on the vessel ceased, but was resumed in 1916 as an aircraft carrier. The conversion work was completed in September 1918, and the vessel was commissioned as HMS Argus – recognised as the first ever "flat top". [8] The Duke was also designer and owner of the first seagoing heavy oil motorship.
List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1917 Ship State Description Berwick Law United Kingdom World War I: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Ténès, Algeria by SM U-34 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of a crew member.