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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.
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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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1939 Ship State Description Cape Ortegal United Kingdom: World War II: The Admiralty-requisitioned cargo ship was scuttled in Skerry Sound, Scapa Flow as a blockship. She broke up at the beginning of the winter of 1939–1940. [38] [39] Helfrid Bissmark Germany: World War II: The coaster struck a mine and sank in ...
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.