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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 ...
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.
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.
HMS Courageous sinking on 17 September 1939 On the evening of 17 September 1939, U-29 sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Courageous in the Western Approaches , about 190 nautical miles (350 km) west-southwest of Dursey Island , with the loss of 519 men, including her commander.
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 ...
810 Squadron was assigned to the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous in May 1933 and formed part of the Home Fleet.In September that year the Darts were replaced by Blackburn Ripons, and these were in turn replaced by Blackburn Baffins in July 1934, with the entire squadron operating Baffins by November that year.
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.
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 ...