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HMS Victorious was the third Illustrious-class aircraft carrier after Illustrious and Formidable. Ordered under the 1936 Naval Programme, she was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1937 and launched two years later in 1939.
HMS Victorious (CV, 38) HMS Eagle (CV, 94) sunk by torpedo from U-73; HMS Indomitable (CV, 92) damaged; HMS Furious (CV, 47) part of sub-operation BELLOWS; USN Invasion of Guadalcanal (7 August 1942) US Operation WATCHTOWER (aka "Operation Shoestring") USN Task Force 61 (Fletcher) USN Task Group 61.1 (Noyes) USN Task Unit 61.1.1 aka Task Force 11:
Hawker Sea Hurricanes of 885 Naval Air Squadron on the deck of HMS Victorious during Operation Pedestal A Supermarine Seafire Mk IIc of 885 Naval Air Squadron on the deck of HMS Formidable in the Mediterranean, December 1942 A Supermarine Seafire of 885 Naval Air Squadron about to "land out" on the deck of HMS Formidable at Gibraltar. 1941
Both carriers made additional fores into the Mediterranean during May and June. After Germany attacked Russia in June, Furious accompanied convoys there, making an unsuccessful raid on Petsamo, Finland as HMS Victorious raided Kirkenes, Norway. Furious then resumed ferrying aircraft to Malta, again with Ark Royal.
Construction of HMS Victorious began in 1937 but she did not become combat operational until mid-1941 when rushed into the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck with only a quarter of her aircraft onboard . [34] The USS Essex began in April 1941 and she was operational in mid-1943, in a raid on Rabaul eight months after commissioning. [35]
Operation EF (1941) (Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo) took place on 30 July 1941, during the Second World War.After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Fleet Air Arm aircraft flew from the aircraft carriers HMS Victorious and Furious to attack merchant vessels in the northern Norwegian port of Kirkenes and the north Finnish port of ...
20 July 1941: The Soviet destroyer Stremitleny was sunk in Kola Bay by a LG 1 Junkers Ju 87. [27] 23 July 1941: Kriegsmarine destroyers Richard Beitzen, Hermann Schoemann, Friedrich Eckoldt and Karl Galster sank the Soviet survey ship Meridian near Teriberka. [28] 30 July 1941: HMS Furious and Victorious launched airstrikes on Petsamo and Kirkenes.
HMS Victorious (1895) was a Majestic-class battleship. She had a quiet career, spending World War I as a dockyard repair ship before being broken up in 1923. HMS Victorious (R38), an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier, launched in 1939. She saw much action in World War II. She was scrapped in 1969. HMS Victorious (S29), launched in 1993, is a ...