HMS Invincible was the Royal Navy's lead ship of her class of three light aircraft carriers. She was launched on 3 May 1977 as the seventh ship to carry...
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HMS Invincible was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the twentieth century and the...
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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Invincible. HMS Invincible (1747) was originally the French 74-gun ship of the line L'Invincible, captured...
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The Invincible class was a class of light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Navy. Three ships were constructed: HMS Invincible, HMS Illustrious and...
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14 May 1747, she was taken into Royal Navy service as the third rate HMS Invincible. She was wrecked in 1758 after hitting a sandbank. The wreck is a Protected...
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Exocet (section HMS Invincible)
took off to attack the carrier HMS Invincible. Argentine intelligence had sought to determine the position of Invincible from analysis of aircraft flight...
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HMS Invincible was a Royal Navy Audacious-class ironclad battleship. She was built at the Napier shipyard and completed in 1870. Completed just 10 years...
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Horace Hood (section Destruction of HMS Invincible)
early death at the Battle of Jutland in the destruction of his flagship HMS Invincible was met with mourning and accolades from across Britain. Hood was a...
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HMAS Melbourne (R21) (redirect from HMS Majestic (R77))
HMS Invincible as surplus to requirements, and she was offered to the RAN for the 'bargain' price of GB£175 million (A$285 million). The Invincible class...
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Falklands. The weather was fair and the sea calm with a 2-metre swell. HMS Invincible, which was with the main task force, was responsible for Anti-Air Warfare...
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HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and the second of three Invincible-class ships constructed in the late 1970s and early...
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operational in 1981 on board the first Invincible-class ship HMS Invincible, and further aircraft joined the ageing HMS Hermes aircraft carrier later that...
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launched in 1864 as HMS Invincible. She was renamed HMS Erebus in 1904, HMS Fisgard II in 1906 and sank in a storm in 1914. HMS Erebus (I02) was an Erebus-class...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
whole nation. In the Argentine press, false reports that HMS Hermes was sunk and HMS Invincible had been damaged were circulated after the weekly magazines...
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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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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 built...
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the use of the light fleet carrier HMS Hermes (1959) and the smaller "through deck cruiser" carrier HMS Invincible. The Falklands showed the value of...
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persisted until the acceptance into service of HMS Invincible in March 1980 and the completion of the conversion of HMS Hermes to operate the Sea Harrier in mid-1981...
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when his ship HMS Invincible suffered an explosion resulting from a hit to the forward magazine, similar to the hit that would doom HMS Hood. There is...
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HMS Invincible was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1765 at Deptford. Invincible was built during a period...
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battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the...
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Bonaventure) Centaur class HMS Centaur HMS Albion HMS Bulwark HMS Hermes Invincible class HMS Invincible HMS Illustrious HMS Ark Royal United States Independence...
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HMS Hermes, only to embark aboard the newly completed Invincible-class light aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and return to the Falklands so that HMS...
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anti-submarine warfare helicopters. Almost as soon as the first ship, HMS Invincible, was ordered, another specification was added to the design: as well...
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the battlecruisers HMS Inflexible and HMS Invincible later that month and transferred her long-range radio equipment to Invincible before sailing to South...
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Admiral John White, commanding a task force from the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible. After Ramius fakes a reactor accident, the US Navy evacuates Red October'...
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Lützow sank the British battlecruiser HMS Invincible and is sometimes given credit for sinking the armored cruiser HMS Defence. However, she was heavily damaged...
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1977) was a British admiral and one of six survivors of the sinking of HMS Invincible during the battle of Jutland. Hubert Dannreuther was born the son of...
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submerged landscapes of the Solent. These include the wrecks of HMS Pomone, HMS Invincible, the Yarmouth Roads Wreck and Bouldnor Cliff. The museum also...
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Squier 846 Naval Air Squadron (6 Sea King HC.4) Invincible-class aircraft carriers HMS Invincible (†3) 2 SHAR pilots Captain J.J. Black RN 801 Naval...
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