• 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 (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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    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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  • "RFA Aldersdale". www.historicalrfa.org. Retrieved 13 August 2021. "HMS Ark Royal". Archived from the original on 29 September 2016. Retrieved 13 August...
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  • HMS Ark Royal (1937) the battleship HMS Prince of Wales (1941) and the largest vessel to have been built for the Royal Navy up to that time, HMS Ark Royal...
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    HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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    HMS Ajax was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River...
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    HMS Ark Royal (ex-Irresistible) (1950) - decommissioned 1979 Colossus class HMS Colossus (1943), to France 1946 as Arromanches HMS Glory (1943) HMS Ocean...
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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 Baltic...
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    the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, she portrayed both herself and HMS Ark Royal during the filming of the British film Sink the Bismarck!. This was...
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    HMS Sheffield was one of the Southampton sub class of the Town-class cruisers of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She took part in actions against...
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    Retrieved 3 April 2016. "Careers:medical assistant". Royal Navy. Retrieved 25 August 2009. "HMS Ark Royal Medical Department". Archived from the original on...
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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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    HMS King George V (pennant number 41) was the lead ship of the five British King George V-class battleships of the Royal Navy. Laid down in 1937 and commissioned...
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    nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders. The former flagship of the Royal Navy, HMS Ark Royal was built at Swan Hunter during this period, entering service...
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    HMS Norfolk when she fought the German battleship Scharnhorst during the Battle of North Cape. He later commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal,...
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    HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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    HMS Legion was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She entered service during the Second World War, and had a short but eventful career, serving in...
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    Illustrious-class aircraft carrier (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
    were different in conception to the Royal Navy's only modern carrier at the time, their predecessor HMS Ark Royal, and what may be described as their...
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    battleships HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, cruisers HMS Kenya, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Sheffield, HMS Euryalus...
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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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    Ben-my-Chree was sunk by Turkish artillery in 1917, but without loss of life. HMS Ark Royal also served at Gallipoli, and continued service after 1918. She was...
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    arrived from RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) in March, then almost immediately embarked in HMS Ark Royal. 819 NAS left HMS Peregrine and had a brief spell...
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    Arthur William La Touche Bisset (category Royal Navy vice admirals)
    was HMS Ark Royal (1934–1935), followed by a period as director of physical training and sport at HMS Victory (1935–1937) before command of HMS Shropshire...
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    construction The Royal Navy suffered heavy losses in the first two years of the war, including the carriers HMS Courageous, Glorious and Ark Royal, the battleships...
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    Blackburn Skua (category Aircraft first flown in 1937)
    and Hawker Osprey biplanes. By November, the squadron had embarked on HMS Ark Royal and, during 1939, was followed by both 801 and 803 Squadrons. By the...
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    survived the sinking of Bismarck and would go on to survive the sinking of HMS Ark Royal after she was torpedoed in November 1941, but it is almost certainly...
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  • launch vehicles, created by the Soviet Union HMS Ark Royal (R07), a 1985 Invincible class British Royal Navy light aircraft carrier USS R-7 (SS-84), a...
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    CVA-01 design. The last conventional carrier to be retired was HMS Ark Royal in 1978. When HMS Hermes was converted in 1980/81 to a STOVL carrier to operate...
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    heavy escort of 19 Royal Navy ships: Force H's aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, battlecruiser HMS Renown and four cruisers...
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