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The Malta-class aircraft carrier was a British large aircraft carrier design of World War II.Four ships were ordered in 1943 for the Royal Navy, but changing tactical concepts, based on American experience in the Pacific War, caused repeated changes to the design, which was not completed before the end of the war.
HMS Malta (1854) was a paddle steamer originally called Britannia and purchased in 1854. She was sold in 1856. HMS Malta (D93) was to have been the lead ship of the Malta-class aircraft carriers. She was laid down in 1944 but construction was cancelled in 1945.
Ship Aircraft Displacement Propulsion Service Laid down Commissioned Fate HMS Hermes (95) 20 13,000 long tons (13,209 t) 6 Yarrow small-tube boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines: max. speed 25 kn
Arromanches: Colossus-class light aircraft carrier, ex-HMS Colossus ... Audacious-class carrier ordered 1943, changed to Malta-class carrier 1944, cancelled 1945.
HMS Illustrious was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II. Her first assignment after completion and working up was with the Mediterranean Fleet, in which her aircraft's most notable achievement was sinking one Italian battleship and badly damaging two others during the Battle of Taranto in late 1940.
Submarines returned to Malta and Spitfires flown from the aircraft carrier HMS Furious enabled a maximum effort to be made against Axis ships. Italian convoys had to detour further away from the island, lengthening the journey and increasing the time during which air and naval attacks could be mounted.
Operation Halberd was at the time the largest Malta supply effort of the war. [1] Nine merchant ships carrying 81,000 tons of military equipment and supplies sailed from Liverpool on 16 September and from the Clyde on 17 September as part of convoy WS (Winston Specials) 11X, passing Gibraltar on 24 September 1941, with a close escort under the command of Rear-Admiral Harold Burrough. [2]
HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. ... "Aircraft to Malta". In Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Warship 1990.