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Timeline Of Aircraft Carriers Of The Royal Navy
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. Timeline In general, labels for ships of a single class are aligned vertically with the topmost ship in a column carrying the class name. In an attempt to show the full timeline of the actual existence of each ship, the final dates on each bar may variously be the date struck, sold, scrapped, scuttled, sunk as a reef, etc., as appropriate to show the last time it existed as a floating object. See also * Aircraft carrier * List of aircraft carriers * List of aircraft carriers by configuration * List of aircraft carriers in service * List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy * List of aircraft maintenance carriers of the Royal Navy * List of aircraft carriers of Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aircraft Carrier
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, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations. Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighters, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft. While heavier aircraft such as fixed-wing gunships and bombers have been launched from aircraft carriers, these aircraft have not successfully landed on a carrier. By its diplomatic and tactical power, its mobility, its autonomy and the variety of its means, the aircraft carrier is often the centerpiece of modern combat fleets. Tactically or even strategically, it replaced the battleship in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Indefatigable (R10)
HMS ''Indefatigable'' was one of two s built for the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II. Completed in 1944, her aircraft made several attacks that year against the , inflicting only light damage; they also raided targets in Norway. The ship was transferred to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) at the end of the year and attacked Japanese-controlled oil refineries in Sumatra in January 1945 before joining the American forces in March as they prepared to invade the island of Okinawa in Operation Iceberg. ''Indefatigable'' and the BPF joined the Americans in attacking the Japanese Home Islands in July and August. Following the end of hostilities she visited ports in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. After returning to the UK in early 1946, ''Indefatigable'' was modified for transport duties, and ferried troops and civilians for the rest of the year before she was reduced to reserve. She was recommissioned in 1950 as a training ship for service with the Home Fleet Training Squ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Melbourne (R21)
HMAS ''Melbourne'' (R21) was a ''Majestic''-class light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1955 until 1982, and was the third and final conventional aircraft carrier to serve in the RAN. ''Melbourne'' was the only Commonwealth naval vessel to sink two friendly warships in peacetime collisions. ''Melbourne'' was laid down for the Royal Navy as the lead ship of the ''Majestic'' class in April 1943, and was launched as HMS ''Majestic'' (R77) in February 1945. At the end of the Second World War, work on the ship was suspended until she was purchased by the RAN in 1947. At the time of purchase, it was decided to incorporate new aircraft carrier technologies into the design, making ''Melbourne'' the third ship to be constructed with an angled flight deck. Delays in construction and integrating the enhancements meant that the carrier was not commissioned until 1955. ''Melbourne'' never fired a shot in anger during her service career, having o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Pioneer (R76)
HMS ''Pioneer'' was a built for the Royal Navy during World War II. She was modified whilst under construction into an aircraft maintenance carrier. The ship arrived in Australia in mid-1945 to support operations by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese forces. She supported the British attacks on the Japanese Home Islands from mid-June until the end of the war in August from a base in the Admiralty Islands. The ship and her facilities were used to help repair Hong Kong's infrastructure in late 1945 and she returned to the UK in early 1946. ''Pioneer'' was immediately placed in reserve upon her arrival and she was sold in 1954 for scrap. Design, description and construction The ''Colossus''-class aircraft carriers were intended to meet a shortage of naval flight decks. Their design was based on that of the s, but modified to permit rapid construction in commercial yards. ''Pioneer'' was not completed to her original design; the success of the maintenance aircraft car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Perseus (R51)
HMS ''Perseus'' was a light fleet aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The ship was initially named HMS ''Edgar'', but she was renamed in 1944 when the Admiralty decided to convert her into an aircraft maintenance carrier. She was completed in 1945, after the end of World War II, and she made a trip to Australia late in the year. Upon her return to the UK in early 1946, ''Perseus'' was placed in reserve. The ship was recommissioned in 1950 to serve as the trials ship for the steam catapult then under development. Over 1,600 test launches were conducted before the catapult was removed in 1952 and she was converted for use as a ferry carrier to transport aircraft, troops and equipment overseas. She was reduced to reserve again in 1954 and sold for scrap in 1958. Design, description and construction The ''Colossus''-class carriers were intended to meet a shortage of naval flight decks. Their design was based on that of the , but modified to permit r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Warrior (R31)
HMS ''Warrior'' was a light aircraft carrier which was ordered in 1942 by the British Royal Navy during World War II. Construction was finished in 1945 and upon completion, the aircraft carrier was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy from 1946 to 1948 as HMCS ''Warrior''. ''Warrior'' was returned to the Royal Navy in 1948 and entered service with the British. While in service with the Royal Navy, ''Warrior'' was modernised twice, including the installation of an angled flight deck in 1956. In 1948–1949, the ship was used in aircraft landing experiments and fitted with a rubber flight deck and in 1957, was used as the headquarters ship during nuclear testing at Christmas Island. In 1958, the vessel was sold to the Argentine Navy and entered Argentine service in 1959 as ARA ''Independencia''. The aircraft carrier remained in service until 1970 when ''Independencia'' was placed in reserve. The following year, the ship was sold for scrap. Description ''Warrior'' was a ''Coloss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Vengeance (R71)
HMS ''Vengeance'' (R71) was a light aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The carrier served in three navies during her career: the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS ''Vengeance'', from 1952 to 1955), and the Brazilian Navy (as NAeL ''Minas Gerais'', from 1956 to 2001). Constructed during World War II, ''Vengeance'' was one of the few ships in her class to be completed before the war's end, but she did not see active service. The ship spent the next few years as an aircraft transport and training carrier before she was sent on an experimental cruise to learn how well ships and personnel could function in extreme Arctic conditions. In late 1952, ''Vengeance'' was loaned to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as a replacement for the delayed aircraft carrier . She remained in Australian waters, operating as an aircraft carrier and training ship, for the majority of her three-year loan, and was returned to the Royal Navy (RN) in August 1955. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARA Veinticinco De Mayo (V-2)
ARA ''Veinticinco de Mayo'' (V-2) was an aircraft carrier in the Argentine Navy from 1969 to 1997. The English translation of the name is ''Twenty-fifth of May'', which is the date of Argentina's May Revolution in 1810. The ship previously served in the Royal Navy as and the Royal Netherlands Navy as . She was deployed south during the Beagle Crisis in 1978 and in the first weeks of the Falklands War ( es, Guerra de las Malvinas), where her aircraft were deployed against the Royal Navy task force, but spent the bulk of the war in port. History The ship was built for the Royal Navy by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, England during the Second World War.Ireland, p. 147 As a aircraft carrier, she was named and saw service in the British Pacific Fleet. ''Venerable'' only served three years in the Royal Navy before being sold to the Netherlands as . After a boiler room fire, the carrier was rebuilt, and sold to Argentina. The Argentines already operated a carrier, , also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81)
HNLMS ''Karel Doorman'' (R81) ( Dutch: Hr.Ms. ''Karel Doorman'' (R81)) was a of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Formerly the British ship , she was sold to the Netherlands in 1948 as a light attack carrier. In 1960, she was involved in the decolonization conflict in Western New Guinea with Indonesia. In the mid 1960s, her role was changed to anti-submarine warfare carrier and only ASW aircraft and helicopters were carried. An engine room fire took her out of service in 1968. She was sold to Argentina in 1969 and renamed . Purchase Built at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead on 3 December 1942, ''Venerable'' was launched just over a year later and commissioned on 17 January 1945. In 1948, ''Venerable''s short career in the Royal Navy came to an end when she was sold to the Netherlands and recommissioned as HNLMS ''Karel Doorman'', replacing a smaller of the same name while in Dutch service. In 1955-58 she was rebuilt with an 8° angled flight deck, new elevators, new island, 40 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Venerable (R63)
HMS ''Venerable'' (R63) was a of the Royal Navy. She served for only the last few months of World War II, and in 1948 she was sold to the Netherlands and renamed , taking part in the military clash in 1962 in Western New Guinea. Subsequently, she was sold to Argentina and renamed , later taking part in the Falklands War. Construction and career HMS ''Venerable'' was laid down at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead on 3 December 1942 and launched just over a year later. The ship was commissioned on 17 January 1945.Beaver, Paul (1987) ''Encyclopedia of the Fleet Air Arm since 1945'', Wellingborough, Northants: Patrick Stephens, As with others of the class completed just before the ending of hostilities, HMS ''Venerable'' immediately headed to the Far East to join the 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron ( ''Colossus'', and ) of the British Pacific Fleet. Each carrier had around 40 F4U Corsair fighters and Fairey Barracuda torpedo bombers on board. After the end of hostilities, HMS ''V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Triumph (R16)
HMS ''Triumph'' was a Royal Navy light fleet aircraft carrier. She served in the Korean War and later, after reconstruction, as a support ship. Construction and commission ''Triumph'' was laid down during World War II on 27 January 1943 at Hawthorn Leslie and Company on the Tyne. Her construction was relatively rapid and she was launched on 2 October 1944 only a few months from the end of the war. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 6 May 1946.Chesneau 1998, p.129. In February 1947 she was assigned to the 2nd Aircraft Carrier Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet until August 1948. Korean War service In 1950, ''Triumph'' was on a cruise to Japan as part of the Far East Fleet. She was nearing Hong Kong when news reached ''Triumph'' and her accompanying ships of war breaking out in the Korean peninsula, forcing ''Triumph'' into a state of alert, including fully armed aircraft on deck. ''Triumph'', escorted by the destroyer , who would also act as an escort to ''Triumph''s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Theseus (R64)
HMS ''Theseus'' ''/ˈtʰeː.seu̯s/, �t̪ʰeːs̠ɛu̯s̠' (R64) was a light fleet aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1943 by Fairfield at Govan, and launched on 6 July 1944. She was involved in the Korean War and the Suez Crisis. ''Theseus'' was broken up in 1962. The name Theseus comes from a mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. Service history Work-up and initial service ''Theseus'' was laid down to serve in the Second World War, but was not completed before peace was declared in 1945. She was utilised as a training vessel until the outbreak of the Korean War. In 1946, ''Theseus'' embarked on work-up and embarked aircraft, conducted trials, and a further work-up for operational service.Naval-history.netHMS Theseus accessed October 2011 After preparation for duty in the Far East, she sailed to join the British Pacific Fleet at Singapore as Flagship for the Flag Officer Air, Far East. In 1947, she deployed as the Flagship, 1st Aircraft Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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