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2. HMS Courageous (50) - Wikipedia

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   Courageous sinking after being torpedoed by U-29. Courageous served with the Home Fleet at the start of World War II with 811 and 822 Squadrons aboard, each squadron equipped with a dozen Fairey Swordfish. [38] In the early days of the war, hunter-killer groups were formed around the fleet's aircraft carriers to find and destroy U-boats. On 31 ...

3. Otto Schuhart - Wikipedia

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   Otto Schuhart (4 September 1909 – 10 March 1990) was a German submarine commander during World War II, who commanded the U-boat U-29 and was credited with the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous on 17 September 1939, the first British warship sunk in the war by enemy action.

4. Courageous-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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   In 1939, Courageous had a complement of 807 officers and ratings, plus 403 men in her air group. [ 11 ] Their half-sister Furious was the same length, but had a beam of 89 ft 0.75 in (27.1 m), [ 12 ] and an average draught of 27 ft 3 in (8.3 m) at deep load, two feet deeper than before the conversion.

5. HMS Courageous - Wikipedia

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   HMS Courageous or Courageux (the French spelling) may refer to one of several ships of the Royal Navy: HMS Courageux (1761), a 74-gun ship of the line captured from the French on 13 August 1761, and wrecked on the coast of Morocco 19 Dec 1796. HMS Courageux, or Courageuse, was a 32-gun sailing frigate captured from the French in June 1799. She ...

6. List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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   Of the first nine battlecruisers, only HMS Tiger survived the Washington Treaty and into the 1930s. The three Courageous-class ships were converted to aircraft carriers during the 1920s and only Repulse, Renown and Hood served in the Second World War as battlecruisers. All three went through substantial refits between the wars.

7. HMS Courageous (S50) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Courageous (S50) is a decommissioned Churchill-class [1] nuclear fleet submarine in service with the Royal Navy from 1971. She is now a museum ship managed by the Devonport Naval Heritage Centre. In 2021, plans to set up a Cold War Centre around Courageous entered their first phase of implementation, supported by the National Museum of the ...

8. Atlantic Theater aircraft carrier operations during World War II

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   British carriers HMS Hermes, HMS Courageous, and HMS Ark Royal patrolled Britain's Western approaches. In September 1941, before America was officially in the war and shortly after a U-boat fired upon the destroyer USS Greer, the fleet carrier USS Wasp sailed to Iceland with orders to find and destroy German or Italian warships.

9. German submarine U-29 (1936) - Wikipedia

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   8 September 1939 Regent Tiger United Kingdom: 10,176 Sunk 13 September 1939 Neptunia United Kingdom: 798 Sunk 14 September 1939 British Influence United Kingdom: 8,431 Sunk 17 September 1939 HMS Courageous Royal Navy: 22,500 Sunk 3 March 1940 Cato United Kingdom: 710 Sunk (mine) 4 March 1940 Pacific Reliance United Kingdom: 6,717 Sunk 4 March 1940