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HMS Furious was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War.Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by the First Sea Lord, Lord Fisher, the ship was very lightly armoured and designed with a main battery of only two 18-inch (457 mm) guns.
HMS Furious (1850) was a wooden-hulled paddle frigate launched in 1850. She was hulked in 1867 and sold in 1884. HMS Furious (1896) was an Arrogant-class second class protected cruiser launched in 1896. She was hulked in 1915 and renamed Forte, and was sold in 1923. HMS Furious (47) was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser launched in 1916.
The Courageous class, sometimes called the Glorious class, was the first multi-ship class of aircraft carriers to serve with the Royal Navy.The three ships—Furious, Courageous and Glorious—were originally laid down as Courageous-class battlecruisers as part of the Baltic Project during the First World War.
HMS Furious as first completed in 1917 with a flying-off deck forward and a single 18-inch turret aft. The Courageous class comprised three battlecruisers, known as "large light cruisers", that were nominally designed to support Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Fisher's Baltic Project, which was intended to land troops on the German Baltic Coast.
1 July – First night deck landing made by F/Lt Boyce flying a Blackburn Dart onto HMS Furious [10] September – HMS Furious re-enters service with flush flight deck. [12] 3 October – USS Lexington launched. [18] 1926. 6 May – First night deck landing, aboard HMS Furious. [23] 1927. 25 March – Akagi commissioned [19] May – Béarn ...
Furious spent most of 1943 training with the Home Fleet, but made numerous air strikes against the Tirpitz and other targets in Norway in 1944. She was worn out by late 1944 and was reduced to reserve in September before being decommissioned the following year. Furious was sold in 1948 for scrap. [45]
The BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun was a breech-loading naval rifle used by the Royal Navy during World War I.It was the largest and heaviest gun ever used by the British. [1] Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 inches (46 cm), but it fired a lighter shell.
On 19 July 1918, seven Sopwith Camels took off from HMS Furious, a converted battlecruiser, in the first attack in history by aircraft from an aircraft carrier. For the loss of one man and several aircraft, the British destroyed Zeppelins L 54, L 60 and a captive balloon.