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  2. List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carriers were designed and constructed by civilian shipyards to serve as an intermediate step between the expensive, full-size fleet aircraft carriers and the less expensive but limited-capability escort carriers. Perseus and Pioneer were modified to operate as maintenance carriers.

  3. List of active Royal Navy ships - Wikipedia

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    Surface fleet Aircraft carriers; Class Ship No. Commissioned Displacement Type Homeport Note Queen Elizabeth class: HMS Queen Elizabeth: R08: 2017: 65,000 tonnes: Aircraft carrier: Portsmouth [22] [23] HMS Prince of Wales: R09: 2019 [24] [N 2] Destroyers; Class Ship No. Commissioned Displacement Type Homeport Note Type 45 (Daring class) HMS ...

  4. List of fleets and major commands of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers – with variously up to 6–8 carriers in the 1950s/60s, was responsible for providing worked up carriers to the operational commands. [13] Amalgamated with Flag Officer Amphibious Ships to become FOCAS towards the end of the 1960s, after the cancellation of CVA-01 .

  5. Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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    HMS Queen Elizabeth, July 2014. The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy consists of two vessels. The lead ship of her class, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was named on 4 July 2014 [15] in honour of Elizabeth I [16] and was commissioned on 7 December 2017. [2]

  6. List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron – British Pacific Fleet, East Indies Fleet (1945–1947) 2nd Aircraft Carrier Squadron – Mediterranean Fleet; 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron – listed in Flight, 20 April 1951, p. 483 with Home Fleet. Commanded at the time by then Rear-Admiral Caspar John.

  7. List of aircraft carriers - Wikipedia

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    Fleet carrier CATOBAR: 1943–1974 Museum in New York City. Invincible Royal Navy: R05 Invincible: Aircraft carrier STOVL: 1980–2005 Irresitible Royal Navy: R09 Audacious: Fleet carrier CATOBAR — Renamed Ark Royal before launch. Iwo Jima US Navy: CV-46 Essex: Fleet carrier CATOBAR — Laid down 1945, but never completed. Izumo Japan ...

  8. List of ship names of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Defender, Wrestler, Invader, and Blue Ranger (escort carriers of the 14th Aircraft Carrier Squadron in Alistair MacLean's novel HMS Ulysses) Dipper and Winger (Kingfisher-class corvettes in the stories East Coast Corvette (1943) and Corvette Command (1944), by Nicholas Monsarrat; republished with H M Corvette as Three Corvettes in 1945)

  9. Timeline of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline of fleet aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.The first British aircraft carrier was HMS Argus, a converted liner hull.. In addition, during the Second World War, the Royal Navy operated flights of aircraft off Merchant aircraft carriers.