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2. HMS Courageous (50) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy in the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by First Sea Lord John Fisher, the ship was very lightly armoured and armed with only a few heavy guns. Courageous was completed in late 1916 and spent the war patrolling the ...

3. Courageous-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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   Courageous sinking In the early days of the war, hunter-killer groups were formed around the fleet aircraft carriers to find and destroy U-boats. On 17 September 1939, U-boat U-29 struck the ship with two torpedoes, and Courageous became the first British warship sunk to enemy action in the Second World War.

4. 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.

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. 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.

8. List of sunken battlecruisers - Wikipedia

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   HMS Courageous Royal Navy: Aircraft carrier: 519 [44] 17 September 1939 [44] Western Approaches [44] Unknown HMS Glorious Royal Navy: Aircraft carrier 1,207 [45] 8 June 1940 [46] North Sea [46] Unknown USS Lexington United States Navy: Aircraft carrier 216 [47] 8 May 1942 [47] Coral Sea [47] In 3 pieces 10,000 feet (3,000 m) below the surface ...

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