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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 ...
The Illustrious class was designed within the restrictions of the Second London Naval Treaty, which limited carrier size to an upper limit of 23,000 tons.They 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 nearest American contemporaries, the Yorktown and Essex class carriers.
Pages in category "Ships built by Vickers Armstrong" ... HMS Varangian; HMS Victorious (R38) HMS Virulent (P95) W. HMNZS Wellington (F69) Z. ARV Zulia (D-21)
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.
Illustrious-class aircraft carrier [1]-WWII era HMS Victorious (R38) modernised in 1950s and in commission till 1968. Implacable-class aircraft carrier [2]-WWII era decommissioned in mid 1950s. Audacious-class aircraft carrier [3] - Served from 1951 till 1979.
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 ...