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2. HMS Eagle (R05) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Eagle was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, in service 1951–1972. Until the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth -class aircraft carriers in the 21st century, she and her sister Ark Royal were the two largest Royal Navy aircraft carriers ever built.

3. HMS Eagle (1918) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre-class battleship Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924.

4. HMS Eagle - Wikipedia

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   HMS Eagle (shore establishment) was the name of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve training facility at Liverpool from 1904. It was renamed HMS Eaglet in 1918. HMS Eagle (1918) was an early aircraft carrier, converted from an unfinished Chilean battleship, Almirante Cochrane, launched in 1918, and sunk in 1942. HMS Eagle was to have been an ...

5. List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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   Aircraft Displacement Propulsion Service Laid down Commissioned Fate HMS Eagle (1918) (ex-Almirante Cochrane) 25-30 26,000 long tons (26,417 t) 32 Yarrow boilers, 4 shafts, Parsons geared turbines: max. speed 24 kn 20 February 1913 20 February 1924 Torpedoed and sunk 11 August 1942, by U-73

6. Audacious-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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   HMS Eagle: N/A Ordered from Swan Hunter, Wallsend-on-Tyne in August 1942. Transferred to Vickers-Armstrong in December that year. 19 April, 1944 N/A N/A Cancelled January 1946 when 23% complete. HMS Africa: N/A Ordered from Fairfield, Govan on 12 July 1943. Later Re-ordered as a Malta-class aircraft carrier in 1944. N/A N/A N/A Cancelled 15 ...

7. Almirante Latorre-class battleship - Wikipedia

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   But because of the increased cost of reconverting her—£2.5 million, compared to a potential profit of £1.5 million from selling her—and a desire to test the aircraft carrier concept and especially the viability of island superstructures, the British kept and completed the ship, as HMS Eagle. [44] [47]