Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal: Ark Royal (1587), the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588 HMS Ark Royal (1914)...
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HMS Ark Royal was a light aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Royal Navy. She was the third and final vessel of the Invincible class. She was...
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HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the...
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HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1979, was the Royal Navy's last remaining...
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HMS Ark Royal was the first ship designed and built as a seaplane carrier. She was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 shortly after her keel had been...
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Ark Royal was an English galleon, originally ordered for Sir Walter Raleigh and later purchased by the crown for service in the Tudor navy. She was used...
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Unsinkable Sam (section HMS Ark Royal)
OCLC 15197891. THE SINKING OF HMS ARK ROYAL, archived from the original on 2021-05-02, retrieved 2021-05-02 Jameson, William (2004), Ark Royal: The Life of an Aircraft...
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carriers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was...
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Invincible-class aircraft carrier (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Navy. Three ships were constructed: HMS Invincible, HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal. The vessels were built as aviation-capable...
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from HMS Ark Royal". As an example of the size and composition of a UK CSG of that era, the Auriga CSG consisted of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, along...
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operational and was embarked for the first time in HMS Ark Royal. A total of 44 Gannets were ordered for the Royal Navy to replace the Skyraider. Standard and...
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the Royal Navy's Force H, consisting of the battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, battlecruiser HMS Renown, and light cruiser HMS Sheffield...
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and was scrapped in 1955. HMS Indomitable was to have been an Invincible-class aircraft carrier. She was renamed HMS Ark Royal in 1978, before being launched...
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Audacious-class aircraft carrier (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
ISBN 1-84477-747-2 Johnstone-Bryden, Richard. Britain's Greatest Warship: HMS "Ark Royal IV". Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 2000. ISBN 0-7509-2504-3 Media...
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Ark or ark in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ark or ARK may refer to: Noah's Ark, the massive vessel to save the world's animals from a flood Ark of...
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In the Royal Navy, the fleet flagship is, in practice, the warship designated as the fleet's most prestigious vessel, currently HMS Queen Elizabeth. In...
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Blackburn Buccaneer (section Royal Navy)
on HMS Victorious, Eagle, HMS Ark Royal, and Hermes. The Buccaneer was retired from FAA service with the decommissioning in February 1979 of the Ark Royal...
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fifteen Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship's steering gear inoperable...
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Exocet launchers in attempt to provide the Royal Navy, reduced by then to one strike carrier, HMS Ark Royal, with some surface fighting capability beyond...
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CVA-01 (category Aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy)
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 four...
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HMS Prince of Wales (R09) is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Unlike most large aircraft carriers, Prince of Wales...
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Jerry Kyd (category Royal Navy vice admirals)
commanding officer of HMS Ark Royal in September 2010, commanding officer of HMS Illustrious in 2011 and commanding officer of the Britannia Royal Naval College...
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HMT Thames (1938) (redirect from HMS Thames (1938))
12-pounder anti-aircraft gun. On 13 November 1941, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal was torpedoed some 30 miles[clarification needed] off Gibraltar by the...
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launched on 9 June 1917. HMS Pegasus (1934), the world's first purpose-built seaplane carrier, commissioned as HMS Ark Royal, but renamed Pegasus in 1934...
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Germany during World War II, famous for sinking the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB...
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Neuenfels in 1922) HMS Ark Royal (UK, 1914, renamed Pegasus in 1934) HMS Ben-my-Chree (UK, a ferry converted in 1915 used in WWI) HMS Engadine (UK, 1911...
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Jerry Grayson (section On-board HMS Ark Royal (R09))
Officer Pilot at Britannia Royal Naval College at age 17, he was assigned to anti-submarine operations on-board HMS Ark Royal with 824 NAS. He flew Westland...
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Operation Cunningham (section Ark Royal)
Eyjafjallajökull eruption. The amphibious warfare ships HMS Albion and HMS Ocean and the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal were assigned to the operation, which was named...
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Group (UKCSG) after it was disbanded in 2011 due to the retirement of HMS Ark Royal and Harrier GR9s. The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers form the...
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documentary series, first shown in 1976, about life on board the fourth HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. It followed the ship on a five-and-a-half-month...
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