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	World Aircraft Carriers List: RN WWII-Era Fleet Aircraft Carriers
		Class: A near-sister to Glorious and Courageous as built, and generally similar to those ships as ultimately converted.
		Aft flying deck added 11/1917 to 2/1918; reclassified as aircraft carrier during conversion, recommissioned 15 March 1918.
		Aircraft capacity was reduced to 59 by 1954.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/uk_fleet.htm (3012 words)

	Aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft—in effect acting as a sea-going airbase.
		Modern aircraft carriers have a flat-top deck, the flight deck that serves as a take-off and landing area for aircraft.
		By the late 1930s, aircraft carriers around the world typically carried three types of aircraft: torpedo bombers, also used for conventional bombings and reconnaissance; dive bombers, also used for reconnaissance (in the U.S. Navy, this type of aircraft were known as "scout bombers"); and fighters for fleet defence and bomber escort duties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aircraft_carrier (4328 words)

	Aircraft carrier Online Research :: Information about Aircraft carrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be developed was the HMS Hermes (1923), although the first one to be commissionned was the Japanese Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho (commissioned in December 1922, followed by HMS Hermes in July 1923).
		Starting with the Midway class aircraft carrier, American carriers had grown so large that it was no longer practical to continue the hangar deck as strength deck concept, and all subsequent American carriers have the flight deck as the strength deck, leaving only the island as superstructure.
		Aircraft carriers are generally the largest ships operated by Navy ; a Nimitz class aircraft carrier carrier powered by two Nuclear reactor and four Steam turbine is 1092 ft (333 m) long and costs about $5 billion.
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Aircraft_carrier.html (4500 words)

	AIRCRAFT CARRIER FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Unescorted carriers are considered vulnerable to attack by other ships, aircraft, submarines or missiles and therefore travel as part of a carrier_battle_group.
		Modern aircraft carriers have a flat-top deck, the flight_deck that serves as a take-off and landing area for aircraft.
		To militate against the expensive connotations of the term "aircraft carrier", the new Invincible_Class carriers were originally designated "through deck cruisers" and were initially helicopter only craft to operate as escort carriers.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /aircraft_carrier (4087 words)

	Loss of HMS Glorious
		ON THE AFTERNOON of Saturday the eighth of June, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were intercepted in the Norwegian Sea by the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
		Glorious also transmitted her enemy report on the "Reconnaissance wave" (probably 230 MHz) from a GP set in the RCO, but this was an uncertain means of communicating over 200 miles, given the bad atmospheric conditions reported by the Germans.
		Glorious' zigzag scheme and her failure to have aircraft in the air indicates that she was probably more concerned with the threat of submarines than with surface raiders.
	www.warship.org /no11994.htm (4932 words)

	Colossus Class Light Fleet Aircraft Carriers
		Aircraft cranes, workshops, deck houses and defensive anti-aircraft weapons were added to the flight deck and although space was provided for aircraft deck parking, all equipment necessary to operate aircraft was absent, and consequently aircraft were hoisted aboard.
		The eight Colossus class carriers were not units of the Centaur and exempt from the cuts, particularly as they were slower and carried fewer aircraft than other classes.
		Aircraft Carriers were vital in the Korean War (1950-3), providing mobile airfields for allied warplanes and four Royal Navy Colossus Class vessels participated in the three year conflict.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Postwar/Carriers/colossus.htm (2752 words)

	Aircraft Carriers from HMS Pegasus to HMS Ocean
		History of the aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy from the seaplane carrier HMS Pegasus to HMS Furious, to the classic aircraft carriers of world war II and beyond with the latest helicopter carrier HMS Ocean.
		Each aircraft carrier has a dedicated page to its history and details including displacement, armament, complement, squadrons and is shown in photographs supplied by ex-crew and family and by fine naval art supplied courtesy of the Naval Art Company.
		The sinking of the aircraft carrier is therefore, of particular importance in every future convoy action." This book looks at the background to the Escort Carrier concept and details the service history of each of the 44 Escort Carriers that served with the Royal Navy.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /carriers1.htm (831 words)

	HMS GLORIOUS aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pre-war HMS Glorious was stationed in the Mediterranean Fleet, primarily at Malta, and with the impending threat of war with Italy she ultimately moved to Alexandria, Egypt.
		HMS Glorious continued to be fully employed in transporting RAF aircraft to the Norwegian Campaign, and in May 1940, 46 RAF squadron debark from HMS Glorious for Norway with 18 hurricanes.
		This pair of carriers were the best conversion for the RN, having the strongest AA armament and air group, yet were lost to the two forms of enemy not designed to combat; the submarine and the battleship.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/GLORIOUS.html (1885 words)

	World Aircraft Carriers List: Japanese Aircraft Carriers
		Bombed by US aircraft at Midway 4 June 1942; munitions and fuel exploded on the flight deck and hangar deck, leading to uncontrollable fires; ship was scuttled 5 June 1942.
		She would have carried a mid-size air group of her own, plus spare aircraft, parts and supplies for the fleet carriers, enabling those ships to resupply without returning to Japan.
		A class of 12,500 ton light fleet carriers was planned in 1922-23, but was cancelled 19 November 1923 due to the Washington Treaty.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/ijn_cv.htm (5450 words)

	Navy Matters \| Future Aircraft Carrier Pre-Downselect Part 2
		The complex process of aircraft handling, movement, preparation, launch and recovery has been the subject of extensive analysis and modelling, bearing in mind that CVF should be able to simultaneously launch and recover aircraft, concurrent with fixed- and rotary-wing operations.
		Its STOVL carrier featured a single island and aft 'mack', but the adopted CV design joins together these two structures to surmount one of three deck-edge aircraft lifts, one of which emerges in the middle of the island.
		While a joint Anglo-French carrier project may be politically attractive to the UK, clearly some elements within the MOD and RN feel that it may be have become too late to incorporate French requirements in to the existing CVF project without incurring unacceptable delays and cost increases.
	navy-matters.beedall.com /cvf3-2.htm (5057 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Aircraft Carrier HMS Glorious of the Courageous class
		Converted to aircraft carrier at Rosyth Dockyard and Devonport Dockyard from 1 February 1924 until 10 March 1930.
		In October 1939, HMS Glorious was part of Force I, supported by the battleship HMS Malaya she patrolled the Gulf of Aden in search of German merchant ships and the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
		With the invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940, HMS Glorious was recalled to England with great haste, she left Malta on 11 April 1940.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/3252.html (183 words)

	HMS COURAGEOUS aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She was converted into a carrier between June 1924 and May 1928.
		When these ships were found to be inadequate and there was a need for fast carriers, both were converted along the same lines as HMS Furious.
		The carrier went down in only twenty minutes and 518 of her 1,200 compliment went with her, including her commander Captain W T Makeig-Jones.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/COURAGEOUS.html (480 words)

	Aircraft Carrier List
		This is a list of aircraft carriers in the world's navies.
		Australia's last aircraft carrier was decommissioned in 1982.
		Aircraft Carrier Sao Paulo formerly FS Foch, purchased 2001
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/List_of_aircraft_carriers.htm (870 words)

	Haze Gray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Lists
		The World Aircraft Carriers Lists are a comprehensive, detailed listing of all the world's aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders, from the start of naval aviation into the 21st century.
		Every carrier and seaplane tender ever built or planned is listed, with complete technical data, historical sketches and photographs for virtually every ship.
		The only requirements are that (1) the site must contain significant carrier-related material, not just a passing reference to carriers, (2) the site must not violate the copyrights of this or any other site, and (3) the site must be reasonably well maintained, i.e.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers (979 words)

	Royal Naval Aircraft Carriers
		The destroyer HMS Kelly passes close to the old carrier HMS Eagle as she escorts a convoy in the Mediterranean early in 1941.
		The R-Class battleship HMS Revenge slips majestically past the carrier HMS Furious as she lies at anchor as three of her Fairey IIIFs fly overhead on a routine training sortie.
		She was sunk by the Japanese aircraft off Ceylon on the 9th April 1942.
	www.navalprints.com /rn_4.htm (1597 words)

	References and Credits
		Carrier Clash: The Invasion of Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons
		Carrier Strike: The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
		Carriers, Pacific Fleet, Action Report June 4-6, 1942 (Serial 0144-A) Rostker, Bernard D., Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
	www.cv6.org /site/reference.htm (1178 words)

	Scharnhorst - Operation "Juno" - H.M.S. Glorious (77)
		1100-1200 as carrier (higher at the time of sinking)
		H.M.S. Glorious in Norway 1940 shortly before she was sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
		Gary Martin, UK Supplied a lot of material from his private archive.
	www.scharnhorst-class.dk /scharnhorst/history/scharnjuno_glorious.html (207 words)

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