Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-210-9. "HMS Furious 1917". Royal Navy. RN official web site. Archived from the original on 13...
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seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree. On 2 August 1917, Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, Royal Navy, landed his Sopwith Pup aircraft on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow...
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HMS Furious was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project...
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and conversion to an aircraft carrier, HMS Argus. 1917 February – Incomplete large light cruiser HMS Furious has its forward gun replaced with a flying-off...
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HMS Violent was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I and was in commission from 1917 to 1937. Violent, the first...
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Press. ISBN 0-85177-130-0. Jenkins, C. A., Commander (1972). HMS Furious/Aircraft Carrier 1917–1948: Part II: 1925–1948. Warship Profile. Vol. 24. Windsor...
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HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the...
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Tondern raid (section HMS Furious)
water by cranes. Furious was designed for aircraft to take off from its forward flight deck. In March 1918 the battlecruiser HMS Furious joined the Grand...
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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...
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Hart Centre for Military Archives Jenkins, C. A. (1972). HMS Furious/Aircraft Carrier 1917–1948: Part II: 1925–1948. Warship Profile. 24. Windsor: Profile...
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HMS Erebus was a First World War monitor launched on 19 June 1916 and which served in both world wars. She and her sister ship Terror are known as the...
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Courageous-class aircraft carrier (section Furious)
names: authors list (link) Jenkins, C. A., Commander (1972). HMS Furious/Aircraft Carrier 1917–1948: Part II: 1925–1948. Warship Profile. Vol. 24. Windsor...
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Harris Dunning became the first aircraft to land aboard a moving ship, HMS Furious. Dunning was killed on his third landing when the Pup fell over the side...
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Edwin Harris Dunning (category 1917 deaths)
and Dartmouth. Dunning landed his Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney on 2 August 1917. With the ship steaming at 26 knots into a 21 knot...
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HMS General Wolfe, Lord Clive and Prince Eugene, were to be converted to take the BL 18-inch guns that had originally been allocated to HMS Furious....
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carrier cost £2,025,800. The ship's new design improved on her half-sister HMS Furious, which lacked an island and a conventional funnel. All superstructure...
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August 2 – Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning lands his aircraft on the ship HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney. He is killed 5 days later during another landing...
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HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version...
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Retrieved 19 May 2013. HMS Furious 1917. Archived 28 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine "Pullars of Perth". Perthshire Diary. 19 September 1917. Retrieved 21 March...
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Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 17 June 2010. "HMS Furious 1917". 2006. Archived from the original on 28 June 2006. Like almost all...
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Adaptable Carrier". Ships Monthly. Jenkins, C. A. (1972). HMS Furious/Aircraft Carrier 1917–1948: Part II: 1925–1948. Warship Profile. Vol. 24. Windsor...
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when the High Seas Fleet surrendered a year later. Their half-sister HMS Furious was designed with a pair of 18-inch (457 mm) guns, the largest guns ever...
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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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battlecruisers led by HMS Hood. Exercises from Malta following during the following year, the destroyer arriving with Furious and destroyer Tyrian on...
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a ship of the same class; she was destroyed by HMS Carmania, also a converted ocean liner, in a furious action in the South Atlantic on 14 September 1914...
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The guns proved to be too powerful for Furious' light hull, and they became available for other uses during 1917, after trials showed the ship could not...
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HMS Umpire was a modified Admiralty R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. The Modified R class added attributes of the Yarrow Later M class...
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battleship HMS Collingwood in December 1916 and of the battlecruiser HMS Furious in March 1917. After the war Nicholson commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle...
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HMS Marshal Ney was the lead ship of her class of two monitors built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Laid down as M13, she was renamed...
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Fairey III (category Aircraft first flown in 1917)
cruisers and battleships, and with wheels, from the aircraft carriers HMS Furious, Eagle, Courageous, Glorious and Hermes. The IIIF remained in front line...
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