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HMS Victorious was the third Illustrious-class aircraft carrier after Illustrious and Formidable. Ordered under the 1936 Naval Programme, ... HMS Victorious in 1941.
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 ...
HMS Victorious (CV, 38) HMS Eagle (CV, 94) sunk by torpedo from U-73; HMS Indomitable (CV, 92) damaged; HMS Furious (CV, 47) part of sub-operation BELLOWS; USN Invasion of Guadalcanal (7 August 1942) US Operation WATCHTOWER (aka "Operation Shoestring") USN Task Force 61 (Fletcher) USN Task Group 61.1 (Noyes) USN Task Unit 61.1.1 aka Task Force 11:
30 July 1941: HMS Furious and Victorious launched airstrikes on Petsamo and Kirkenes. Victorious launched an airstrike on Tromsø on 31 July. These airstrikes turned back a patrol of Kriegsmarine destroyers. [28] 31 July 1941: HMS Nigeria, Aurora, Punjabi and Tartar destroyed a weather station on Bear Island. [29]
Spitfires were to be launched from HMS Furious while air cover for the entire convoy was provided by fighters from three carriers, HMS Eagle, HMS Victorious, and HMS Indomitable. Additional escort was provided by two battleships, seven cruisers, and 24 destroyers, forming the largest ever convoy to Malta.
HMS Victorious (R38) 36 23,000 long tons (23,369 t) 6 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 3 shafts, Parsons geared turbines 4 May 1937 14 May 1941 Sold for scrap 1969 HMS Indomitable (R92) 45 23,000 long tons (23,369 t) 6 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 3 shafts, Parsons geared turbines 10 November 1937 10 October 1941 Sold for scrap 1955
They embarked aboard HMS Victorious in July 1941 and carried out an attack on Kirkenes, Norway. Five of the squadron's aircraft were lost in the attack. The squadron was then regrouped and sailed to Gibraltar in August aboard HMS Argus. [2] They were then transported to Hal Far, Malta aboard HMS Ark Royal.
Construction of HMS Victorious began in 1937 but she did not become combat operational until mid-1941 when rushed into the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck with only a quarter of her aircraft onboard . [34] The USS Essex began in April 1941 and she was operational in mid-1943, in a raid on Rabaul eight months after commissioning. [35]