Arromanches (R95) was an aircraft carrier of the French Navy, which served from 1946 to 1974. She was previously HMS Colossus (15) of the Royal Navy....

The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal...

A light aircraft carrier, or light fleet carrier, is an aircraft carrier smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type...

list of aircraft carriers of France. Fifteen aircraft carriers have served the navy or been proposed since the 1910s. As of 2024, one French carrier—Charles...

11,000-ton Independence-class aircraft carrier that served the French Navy from 1951 to 1963. She was the first French vessel named after the 18th century...

Arromanches-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [aʁɔmɑ̃ʃ le bɛ̃] ; or simply Arromanches) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region...

Arromanches: Colossus-class light aircraft carrier, ex-HMS Colossus (R15), in service from 1946 to 1974 Independence class La Fayette: light aircraft...

By the early 1950s, the French Navy had in service a number of aircraft carriers, the most modern of which was Arromanches. However, all of them were...

and Arromanches to conduct operations against the Viet Minh during the 1946–1954 First Indochina War. The United Kingdom used carrier-based aircraft from...

This is a list of aircraft carriers of the Second World War. Aircraft carriers serve as a seagoing airbases, equipped with a flight deck and facilities...

This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for...

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying...

USS Belleau Wood (renamed Bois Belleau) was lent to France and sent to French Indochina to replace the Arromanches. She was used to support delta defenders in...

helicopters French Navy Arromanches – (ex-Colossus class) ASW fixed-wing CATOBAR and helicopters Royal Navy HMS Bulwark; Centaur-class aircraft carrier recommissioned...

carry the crew for the aircraft carrier HMS Colossus, which was to be loaned to the French for five years, serving as Arromanches. Richelieu thereafter...

Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and light aircraft carrier; an "aircraft maintenance carrier". The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carriers were designed and...

operations, and after the war commanded the French aircraft carrier Arromanches. Arromanches carrier (in French) Jubelin, A.: The Flying Sailor, London:...

Aircraft carriers have their origins during the days of World War I. The earliest experiments consisted of fitting temporary "flying off" platforms to...

French Navy was left to the aging Arromanches (R 95), a World War II-era light carrier. PH 75 was envisioned as the replacement for the Arromanches....

subsequent brief occupation. French battleship Jean Bart (1940) French aircraft carrier La Fayette French aircraft carrier Arromanches Between them, 36 Vought...

R95 may refer to: French aircraft carrier Arromanches HMS Zenith (R95), a destroyer of the Royal Navy R95, a NIOSH air filtration rating This disambiguation...

cadets joined the French aircraft carrier Arromanches for professional training, then rotated through the far eastern warships of the French Navy. In July...

was in need of additional aircraft carriers to support the two light carriers—La Fayette (formerly USS Langley), and Arromanches (formerly HMS Colossus)—then...

11th Carrier Assault Flotilla (on Arromanches until April 30, 1954), SB-2C Helldivers that went to 3rd Carrier Assault Flotilla (on Arromanches until...

then joined the rest of the intervention force, which included the carriers Arromanches and La Fayette, Georges Leygues, the destroyers Surcouf, Kersaint...

and protection of a carrier strike group formed around an aircraft carrier, usually Charles de Gaulle or one of the aircraft carriers of the US Navy, or...

Les porte-avions Dixmude et Arromanches. Nantes: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909-675-39-4. Poolman, Kenneth (1972). Escort Carrier 1941–1945. London: Ian Allan...

Navy and formed the nucleus of the Free French Naval Forces France's surrender found her only aircraft carrier, Béarn, en route from the United States...

damage in a friendly fire incident when airplanes from the French aircraft carrier Arromanches attacked her by mistake. While she was surfacing on 28 March...

from 1951 to 1958. Some of these aircraft were allotted to flottilles 3F and 9F stationed on board the carriers Arromanches, Bois Belleau, and La Fayette...