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On 31 August 1939 she went to her war station at Portland and embarked the two squadrons of Swordfish. Courageous departed Plymouth on the evening of 3 September 1939 for an anti-submarine patrol in the Western Approaches, escorted by four destroyers. [34] On the evening of 17 September 1939, she was on one such patrol off the coast of Ireland.
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. She displaced 22,500 long tons (22,900 t) at ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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However, the vulnerability of carriers compared to traditional battleships when forced into a gun-range encounter was quickly illustrated by the sinking of HMS Glorious by German battlecruisers during the Norwegian campaign in 1940. The first British warship lost in the war was HMS Courageous sunk by U-29 on 17 September 1939.