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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. 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

5. 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 ...

6. 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.

7. 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 ...

8. Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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   German submarine U-29 sinks the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. [3] September 17, 1939 The first Allied "fast convoy" HXF 1 sets sail from Halifax escorted by HMCS Fraser formerly HMS Crescent. [4] September 20, 1939 U-27 is sunk with depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Fortune and HMS Forester. September 26, 1939

9. 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.