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2. RFA Argus (A135) - Wikipedia

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   Argus. (A135) RFA Argus off the coast of Devonport in 2007. Requisitioned by Ministry of Defence, May 1982. Returned to owner, November 1982. Argus enters Portsmouth Naval Base on 9 July 2010 with the crew lining the decks. RFA Argus is a ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary operated by the Ministry of Defence under the Blue Ensign.

3. Royal Fleet Auxiliary - Wikipedia

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   The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a naval auxiliary fleet owned by the UK 's Ministry of Defence. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service and provides logistical and operational support to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The RFA ensures the Royal Navy is supplied and supported by providing fuel and stores through replenishment at ...

4. HMS Argus (I49) - Wikipedia

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   HMS. Argus. (I49) 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.

5. HMS Argus - Wikipedia

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   Nine ships of the Royal Navy and one of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have been named Argus, after Argus, the hundred-eyed giant of mythology: HMS Argus (1799) was a 10-gun sloop, originally a French privateer, captured in 1799 and broken up in 1811. HMS Argus was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate. She was ordered in 1812, but cancelled that same year.

6. Multi-role support ship (UK) - Wikipedia

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   The Multi-Role Support Ship (MRSS) is a planned class of up to six multi-mission amphibious warfare ships in development for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. The ships were first officially mentioned in the British government's 2021 defence white paper, titled Defence in a Competitive Age. [1] In May 2024, funding for the ships was announced at ...

7. List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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   18,330 long tons (18,624 t) 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines. 1 June 1942. 16 December 1944. Loaned to France as Arromanches from August 1946, then sold to France 1951. HMS Glory (R62) 48. 18,330 long tons (18,624 t) 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines.

8. RFA Lyme Bay - Wikipedia

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   RFA Lyme Bay at Portland, August 2007. RFA Lyme Bay is a Bay-class auxiliary dock landing ship (LSD (A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). Ordered from Swan Hunter in 2000, the ship was launched in 2005. However, cost overruns and delays saw the shipbuilder removed from the project, and the incomplete ship was towed to Govan for ...

9. Timeline of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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   early Scots ships (1329–1707) v. t. e. The following is a timeline of fleet aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. The first British aircraft carrier was HMS Argus, a converted liner hull. In addition, during the Second World War, the Royal Navy operated flights of aircraft off Merchant aircraft carriers.