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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.
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Spitfires were to be launched from HMS Furious while air cover for the entire convoy was provided by fighters from three carriers, HMS Eagle, HMS Victorious, and HMS Indomitable. Additional escort was provided by two battleships, seven cruisers, and 24 destroyers, forming the largest ever convoy to Malta.
Liberty ship: Cargo Ship [59] SS John W. Brown: United States Maryland: Baltimore: United States: 1942 Liberty ship: Cargo Ship [60] SS Lane Victory: United States California: San Pedro: United States: 1945 Victory Ship: Cargo Ship: U.S. Merchant Marine [61] SS Red Oak Victory: United States California: Richmond: United States: 1944 Victory ...
17 August 1944: Soviet aircraft sank two merchant ships near Kirkenes. [112] 19 August 1944: Soviet torpedo cutters sank 3,946-ton Colmar from a German convoy near Persfjord. [112] 21 August 1944: U-344 sank convoy JW 59 escort HMS Kite, and was sunk by Swordfish of the covering force aircraft carrier HMS Victorious. [113]
Victorious was 421 feet (128 m) long overall and had a beam of 75 ft (23 m) and a draft of 27 ft (8.2 m). She displaced up to 16,060 long tons (16,320 t) at full load.Her propulsion system consisted of two 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines powered by eight coal-fired, cylindrical fire-tube Scotch marine boilers.
HMS Victorious (1785), launched at Blackwall Yard, London, was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line; HMS Victorious (1808), launched at Bucklers Hard, was a 74-gun third rate; 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 ...
HMS Suffolk (55) was one of the Kent subclass of the County-class heavy cruisers Heavy cruisers were defined by international agreement pre-war for the purposes of arms limitation as those with guns greater than 6-inch (152 mm); ships of guns of 6-inch or less were light cruisers.