• HMS Eagle, after the eagle. HMS Eagle (1592) was an ex-merchantman purchased in 1592 and in use as a careening hulk. She was sold in 1683. HMS Eagle (1648)...
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    HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre-class...
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    HMS Eagle was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, in service 1951–1972. Until the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers...
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    ship to HMS Eagle, which was initially named HMS Audacious, hence the name of the class. Four Audacious-class ships were laid down, but two (HMS Africa...
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    United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and...
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    naval buildup - Africa, Irresistible, Audacious and Eagle. At the end of hostilities Africa and Eagle were cancelled. Work on the remaining two was suspended...
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  • HMS Eagle was a British 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1774 at Rotherhithe. On 7 September 1776, the experimental...
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  • were intended to replace HMS Victorious and HMS Ark Royal, while CVA-03 and CVA-04 would have replaced HMS Hermes and HMS Eagle respectively. The planned...
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  • Look up Eagle or eagle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The eagle is a large bird of prey. Eagle or The Eagle may also refer to: The Eagle (sinkhole)...
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  • aircraft carrier. The ship was renamed as HMS Eagle on 21 January 1946, two months before her launch. HMS Audacious (S122) is an Astute-class submarine...
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    803 and 809 Naval Air Squadrons. Buccaneers were embarked on HMS Victorious, Eagle, HMS Ark Royal, and Hermes. The Buccaneer was retired from FAA service...
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    Ramillies, aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, cruisers HMS Berwick, Orion, HMAS Sydney and destroyers Whitley, p.96 Mason, HMS Ajax Lenton & Colledge 1968 p...
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    took part, two aboard the fleet carrier HMS Eagle and two each aboard the light fleet carriers HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark. The Sea Hawks were primarily...
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    on HMS Eagle (Film). British Pathé. 8 June 1969. Archived from the original on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2016 – via YouTube. HMS Eagle 1969-1970...
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    joined the carriers Eagle and Argus, with further escort provided by the battleship HMS Malaya, the cruisers HMS Kenya and HMS Liverpool and a number...
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    HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as...
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    including the carriers HMS Albion, HMS Bulwark and HMS Eagle (carrying the Sea Vixens) and the LPD (Landing Platform Dock) HMS Fearless. The Sea Vixen's...
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    HMS Eagle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard during 1677/79. When completed she was placed in Ordinary...
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  • delivery of 38 Spitfires to Malta from HMS Furious Bowery (1942) — delivery of 64 Spitfires to Malta from HMS Eagle and USS Wasp Brasso (1942) — scheme for...
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    and while at Lisbon, he was impressed by the Royal Navy. First sent to HMS Victory under Lord Jervis, he soon received an assignment to a prize crew...
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  • HMS Eagle was a Dutch hoy that the Admiralty purchased in 1794. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in March 1794 under Lieutenant David Hamline...
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    HMS Eagle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 February 1804 at Northfleet. On 31 March, she was driven ashore and...
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    World War. Only one, Almirante Latorre (HMS Canada), was finished as a battleship; Almirante Cochrane (HMS Eagle), was converted to an aircraft carrier...
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  • squadron embarked on HMS Albion in January 1956, for operations in the Mediterranean and the Far East. In August it joined HMS Eagle, participating in attacks...
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  • the training establishment HMS Ganges at Harwich in December 1954. He was given command of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle in February 1957 and was promoted...
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    Naval Air Squadron disembarked from the Audacious-class aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle with eight Westland Wessex HAS.1 anti-submarine warfare helicopters between...
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    HMS Victorious (1939) HMS Indomitable (1940) Implacable class HMS Implacable (1942) HMS Indefatigable (1942) Audacious class HMS Eagle (ex-Audacious) (1946)...
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    RAF Kai Tak (redirect from HMS Nabcatcher)
    Three years later, on 23 March 1968, the same flight disembarked from HMS Eagle for a short period, rejoining the vessel on 6 April. The final Royal Navy...
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    March 1796) was a British Royal Navy admiral. As captain of the 58-gun HMS Eagle he engaged and defeated the French 50-gun Duc d'Aquitain off Ushant in...
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    the missile's tail fins aided identifying the missile. HMS Eagle's GWS-20 was trialled on board HMS Decoy, a Daring-class destroyer, in 1961; it was subsequently...
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