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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942.. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945.
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 Aboukir: Armored cruiser United Kingdom: 22 September 1914: SM U-9 Germany: 526 [76] HMS Hawke: Protected cruiser United Kingdom: 15 October 1914: SM U-9 Germany: 523 [12] Aden Maru: Troopship Japan: 6 May 1944: USS Gurnard United States: 518 [46] HMS Courageous: Aircraft carrier United Kingdom: 17 September 1939: U-29 Germany: 514 [77] HMS ...
HMS Courageous CV: 17-Sep-1939: Off Iceland? 519: 2 Torpedoes from Sub German U-29: HMS Glorious CV: 8-Jun-1940: North Sea off Norway? 1,207: Guns from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: HMS Ark Royal CV: 14-Nov-1941: Off Gibraltar? 1: 1 Torpedo from Sub German U-81: HMS Audacity CVE: 21-Dec-1941: North Atlantic off Spain? 73: 3 Torpedoes from German ...