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HMS Victorious was the third Illustrious-class aircraft carrier after Illustrious and Formidable. Ordered under the 1936 Naval Programme, she was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1937 and launched two years later in 1939.
HMS Victorious (1895) was a Majestic-class battleship. She had a quiet career, spending World War I as a dockyard repair ship before being broken up in 1923. HMS Victorious (R38), an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier, launched in 1939. She saw much action in World War II. She was scrapped in 1969. HMS Victorious (S29), launched in 1993, is a ...
World War II Database [17] USN aircraft and aircrew transport from US West Coast to Pacific areas (1944–1945) USN: USS Long Island (CVE-1) RN Anti-submarine patrols in Indian Ocean (Jan – March 1944) Operation COVERED; group sank German Supply ship Brake. RN Force 67, CS4: HMS Battler (CVE-6/D18)
Those carriers were HMS Argus, HMS Illustrious, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Victorious, and HMS Eagle, HMS Furious, and USS Wasp. Eagle alone made nine such ferrying trips, sending 183 Spitfires to the island. [197] The Ark Royal and Eagle were sunk in the Mediterranean during this period.
Operation EF (1941) (Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo) took place on 30 July 1941, during the Second World War.After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Fleet Air Arm aircraft flew from the aircraft carriers HMS Victorious and Furious to attack merchant vessels in the northern Norwegian port of Kirkenes and the north Finnish port of ...
HMS King George V viewed from HMS Victorious during Operation Sportpalast. Due to the presence of the battle group at Trondheim, the Home Fleet was directed to provide a powerful distant covering force for the next Arctic convoys; this was the first time that this had been done. The British also stepped up their air patrols of the Trondheim ...
Victorious was 421 feet (128 m) long overall and had a beam of 75 ft (23 m) and a draft of 27 ft (8.2 m). She displaced up to 16,060 long tons (16,320 t) at full load.Her propulsion system consisted of two 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines powered by eight coal-fired, cylindrical fire-tube Scotch marine boilers.
Arctic naval operations of World War II were the World War II naval operations that took place in the Arctic Ocean, and can be considered part of the Battle of the Atlantic and/or of the European Theatre of World War II. [1] [note 1] Pre-war navigation in the region focused on fishing and the international ore-trade from Narvik and Petsamo.