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	HMS Argus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth Argus was a coast guard vessel launched in 1851, renamed Amelia in 1872 and Fanny in 1889, sold in 1907.
		The fifth Argus was a coast guard vessel launched in 1904, renamed Argon in 1918 and sold in 1920.
		The seventh Argus is a transport purchased in 1984.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Argus (257 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (Ar-Az) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		HMS Ardent had a top speed of 35 knots, was crewed by a complement of 138 and armed with four 4.7 inch guns and two torpedo tubes.
		HMS Argus (formerly the Contender Bezant) was bought from Italy in 1984 and converted for military use.
		HMS Aurora was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by John Brown and launched in 1962.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /R1C.HTM (4061 words)

	The Royal Navy in Operation Allied Force
		HMS Bulldog, a coastal survey vessel, HMS Atherstone and HMS Sandown all helped to detect and dispose of ordnance in Operation 'Allied Harvest' surveying all declared jettison areas.
		The Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset, and subsequently HMS Grafton who relieved her on 26th April, both served as part of the French aircraft carrier Task Group in the Adriatic.
		HMS Iron Duke and HMS Norfolk, also both Type 23 frigates, were deployed to the region as part of NATO Standing Naval Forces patrolling the area and keeping the Yugoslav Navy under constant surveillance.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Kosovo/Navy.html (211 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Argus (1918-1946)
		HMS Argus, a 14,550-ton aircraft carrier, was built at Glasgow, Scotland.
		Argus served in a training role during much of World War II, but the desperate circumstances of the first years of that conflict sometimes required that she see front-line service, notably in 1942, when she served with Force H and later supported the landings in North Africa.
		HMS Argus was sold for scrapping in December 1946.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-a/argus11.htm (459 words)

	The Bosuns Watch! Honjo.
		HMS Stella Sirius was a 404 ton trawler, which was built in 1934.
		HMS Honjo, of 308 tonnes, was built in 1928 and became a mine sweeper in 1939.
		HMS Erin, of 394 tonnes, was built in 1933 and became an anti-submarine trawler in 1940.
	www.mikes-place.connectfree.co.uk /honjo.html (1846 words)

	RO-7 Ark Royal
		HMS Ark Royal is larger than her 2 sisters, Invincible and Illustrious, at 210 metres (683 feet) long.
		HMS Ark Royal is planned to remain in active service until 2015 when the next generation of aircraft carriers will enter service.
		During the exercise HMS Ark Royal embarked Rear Admiral Burnell-Nugent and the Maritime Battle Staff and took the major role leading the maritime component of the Opposing Forces who were attacking NATO.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/ro-7.htm (1351 words)

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		HMS EAGLE having suffered damage to her aviation fuel system due to repeated near misses by bombs, was unable to participate with HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in the attack on Taranto on the 11th November.
		HMS EAGLE took part in four further aircraft ferrying convoys to Malta during June and July when she transported a total of 114 Spitfires.
		HMS EAGLE was hit by 4 torpedoes from U73 and sank in just over eight minutes at position 38'05' N: 3'02' E, roughly 80 miles from Algiers.
	freespace.virgin.net /fleetairarm.archive/history.htm (2157 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Aircraft Carrier HMS Ark Royal of the Ark Royal class
		In December 1939 HMS Ark Royal was sent to the South Atlantic to help in the search for the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee The spring of 1940 saw her participating in the Norwegian campaign, and in July she was one of the ships that attacked the French Navy's base at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria.
		In fact one torpedo hit HMS Ark Royal (Capt. L.E. Maund, R.N.) amidships, which sank under tow by the British tug HMS Thames with almost all of her aircrafts 25 miles east of Gibraltar, in position 36.03N, 04.45W, at 0813 hours on 14 November 1941.
		In the meantime 4 destroyers HMS Duncan, HMS Isis, HMS Firedrake and HMS Jupiter left Gibraltar and steamed to the east to conduct a anti-submarine sweep.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/3257.html (735 words)

	List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
		Illustrious class\n HMS Illustrious\n HMS Formidable\n HMS** Victorious
		Majestic class\n HMS Majestic, sold to Australia in 1955 and renamed HMAS Melbourne\n HMS Hercules, sold to India in 1957 and renamed INS Vikrant\n HMS Leviathan, was never completed\n HMCS Magnificent\n HMS Powerful, sold to Canada in 1952 and renamed HMCS Bonaventure\n HMS Terrible, sold to Australia in 1948 and renamed HMAS Sydney
		Centaur class\n HMS Centaur\n HMS Albion\n HMS Bulwark\n HMS Hermes, sold to India as the INS Viraat
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/l/li/list_of_aircraft_carriers_of_the_royal_navy.html (136 words)

	Carrier Aviation
		HMS Hermes (1923), which was the first ship in the world to be designed and built as an aircraft carrier.
		The raid on the Italian Fleet in Taranto Harbour (11 November 1940), by 21 Swordfish Biplanes flying from HMS Illustrious.
		Trails on HMS Perseus during 1950-1952 showed an aircraft weighing 30,000lbs could be launched with a speed of over 90 knots, which was a considerable increase over the air hydraulic catapults then in service.
	stevenwillingale.com /cva.htm (1120 words)

	8 April 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		HMS Argus, the oldest and least serviceable, was operating out of Toulon, France as the Fleet's Deck Landing Training carrier.
		HMS Eagle was in drydock at Singapore undergoing an extensive refit to repair the damage sustained from an accidental explosion in her bomb ready room.
		HMS Furious, the oldest of the Fleet's fast carriers, having just completed a long refit at Devonport, was due to reenter service momentarily.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/04/08.htm (1019 words)

	HMS Argus - TheBestLinks.com - Aircraft carrier, Royal Navy, 1984, 1918, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		HMS Argus - TheBestLinks.com - Aircraft carrier, Royal Navy, 1984, 1918,...
		HMS Argus, Aircraft carrier, Royal Navy, 1984, 1918, 1917, 1944, 1946, 1907...
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Argus.html (305 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - War at Sea - Mediterranean - 1942
		Force H, consisting of HMS Argus and HMS Eagle and supported by a number of destroyers, sets sail for Malta with a number of Spitfires on board.
		Cunningham is forced to order the withdrawal of the 10th Submarine Flotilla from Malta as a result of the intense bombing and because of the mines laid by aircraft and German E-boats.
		For a time, the aircraft-carrier HMS Furious joins the convoy with a complement of 38 Supermarine Spitfires which are to be flown off towards the embattled island.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-at-sea/mediterranean/mediterranean-index-1942.htm (1087 words)

	880 Squadron History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In May 1942, the squadron left Port Reitz, East Africa onboard HMS Indomitable and took part in the Madagascar landings, including an attack on the Vichy French sloop D’Entrecaseaux, and subsequently took part in Operation Pedestal convoy to Malta when the ship was badly damaged by enemy attacks.
		In October 1942 the squadron embarked on HMS Argus for the North African landings, returning to HMS Indomitable in March 1943 for the landings in Sicily in July 1943 and the September landings in Salerno from HMS Stalker.
		Stationed at Ballyhalbert and Skeabrae from October 1943 till February 1944, the squadron embarked on HMS Furious in February for operations against Norway, and again in March/April when the squadron took part in the 3 April 1944 operation Tungsten attack which crippled the German Battleship Tirpitz in Kaa Fjord in Arctic Norway.
	home.alltel.net /hensons/public_html/squadron.html (583 words)

	HMS Liverpool - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		The bows and roof of 'A' turret were blown off and she was taken in tow, stern first by HMS Orion.
		Along with this convoy was the covering force of the battleship HMS Malaya, the aircraft-carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle, three cruisers and eight destroyers.
		Nevertheless the Polish destroyer Kujawiak hit a mine and was sunk and two other destroyers HMS Badsworth and HMS Matchless and the supply ship Orari were damaged by mines, the latter at the very entrance to Grand Harbour.
	home.swipnet.se /ew-11578/hms_liverpool.htm (776 words)

	Sub-Lieut. John Sidney Brew and the sinking of HMS Avenger, 1942
		H.M.S. Avenger was originally launched in November 1940 as the American motor passenger liner Rio Hudson but was loaned to the United Kingdom under the Lend-Lease programme barely a year later.
		She was extensively renovated in a Pennsylvania dockyard in the Winter of 1941-42 and converted to an auxiliary aircraft carrier for the Royal Navy.
		He served on several ships, including the merchant cruiser HMS Dunvegan Castle, which was torpedoed and sunk while he was aboard, in August 1940.
	brew.clients.ch /Avenger.htm (2498 words)

	Navy News - Jack to Jack - Calling Old Shipmates - D to F
		HMS Eagle 1958-9: Pete Kemp, variously known as ‘Biscuits’ or latterly ‘Oz’, is looking for ‘Scouse’ Fleet and anyone else that served on 894 Squadron on the Eagle 1958-59.
		HMS Exeter: Seeking Tony Hancock served Exeter 82 or anyone else from crew of 82 with regards to a reunion in april 2005.
		HMS Dryad/HMS Pembroke: John (Fergie) Ferguson was in the RN between 1950 and 62.
	www.navynews.co.uk /cos/cosdtof.asp (3192 words)

	List of aircraft carriers - Gurupedia
		HMS Venerable sold to the Netherlands in 1948 and renamed Karel Doorman
		HMS Vengeance, launched 1944, sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed NAeL Minas Gerais
		HMS Warrior -loaned to Canada as HMCS Warrior, sold to Argentina in 1958 and renamed Independencia
	www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_aircraft_carriers.htm (491 words)

	RAF Hurricanes in Russia
		Originally HMS Argus had been an Italian Merchantmen that had gone to the Royal Navy at the end of WWI.
		Back on board HMS Argus on 6th September, the pilots were given there final briefings.
		HMS Kenya was to leave first and arrived back in Rosyth on the 7th December 1941.
	lend-lease.airforce.ru /english/articles/sheppard/hurricanes (5975 words)

	Malta George Cross
		In the spring of 1942, when Spitfires flown from the decks of carriers HMS Eagle and USS Wasp arrived at the island's battered airstrips, the battle took a new turn.
		In May he was posted to Malta, flying his Spitfire off HMS Eagle on 9 June, with 603 Squadron.
		During his final combat on 12 October he was shot down, wounded, and evacuated from the island in a Liberator, which in turn crashed on landing at Gibraltar.
	www.chesterfieldarmament.com /taylor/maltageorgecross/malta.htm (2655 words)

	HMS Unicorn
		Aircraft carrier website dedicated to the history of HMS Unicorn from launch to participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of Gibraltar class carriers.
		HMS Unicorn aircraft carriers, Message Board for naval enthusiasts and ex Crew families of HMS Unicorn.
		Served on the HMS Unicorn from 1944 -1946, and was Air Mechanic Ordnance 1st Class.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /gibraltar_class.htm (873 words)

	Vessels operating in Weymouth and Portland area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		HMS Venerable, with a fleet under her convoy, running to the southward with a fair wind.
		Portsmouth Sept 29 HMS Prometheus was very nearly swamped in the Race of Portland last Tuesday evening ; her stern and quarter boats were torn from the davits by the violence of the sea.
		HMS Chub steam gunboat left Portsmouth for the rendezvous of the third and fourth divisions of the gun boat flotilla in Portland Roads, where the following of their members assembled on Friday:- HM ships Sans Pareil, 71, Lark, Magpie, Badger, Sheldrake, Skipjack and Redwing.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /RN/Dorset.html (16629 words)

	First World War.com - The War in the Air - Naval Warfare
		The small chart-house on deck could be lowered, leaving the Argus with a clear 168 by 21 metre (550 by 68 foot) flight deck for taking off and landing.
		The admiralty rejected this plan, but the concept was sound, and was first used to great effect by the British 23 years later against the Italian fleet at Taranto in 1940.
		The Argus made the concept of the seaplane tender obsolete, and post war developments made the Argus itself obsolete within a few years.
	www.firstworldwar.com /airwar/navalwarfare.htm (1830 words)

	Aircraft carrier
		The first ship to have a full length flat deck was HMS Argus the conversion of which was completed in September 1918.
		It was widely adopted following trials on HMS Perseus between 1950 and 1952 which showed it to be more powerful and reliable than the compressed air catapults which had been introduced in the 1930s.
		As now only nuclear powered carriers have boilers as part of their motive power system, the majority of aircraft carriers are now equipped with steam generating plant solely to power the catapults.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Aircraft_carrier (2333 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Argus (1917)
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		HMS Argus was initially laid down in 1914 in Glasgow as the Italian ocean liner Conte Rosso.
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	Fleet Air Arm 807 squadron profile. Squadron Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Four squadron aircraft survived the torpedoing of HMS Ark Royal in November 1941 and flew to North Front, Gibraltar, where Fulmars and Sea Hurricanes joined the re-equipped squadron for convoys duties with HMS Argus.
		In June 1942 squadron aircraft were embarked on HMS Argus and HMS Eagle for relief convoys to Malta in operation Harpoon.
		Back in the UK in March 1943 the squadron undertook Army cooperation support training, and embarked on HMS Indomitable in May 1943 to provide cover for the Sicily landings until the ship was damaged by a torpedo in July when the squadron was transferred to HMS Battler to provide cover for the Salerno landings.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /squadrons/807.html (624 words)

	HMS Argus aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the first few years of the Second world war, HMS Argus saw service ferrying aircraft to Gibraltar and Malta to augment the defending aircraft during siege of Malta, and for Takoradi for onward staged flights to Egypt, 1941-1942.
		The Sea Hurricanes and Fulmars from HMS Argus did an outstanding job of defending the convoy, with No 801 Squadron claiming six Italian planes.
		Warship photographs of the Royal Navy A to Z. Information about HMS Argus in Operation Pedestal and the Malta Convoys.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /ships/Argus.html (559 words)

	880 Squadron Hangar Deck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This machine was flown by Sub-Lt Parke when he shared in the destruction of a Ju 88 over Scapa Flow on 24 December 1940.
		No 800 Squadron operated this Supermarine Seafire II off of the carriers HMS ARGUS and HMS INDOMITABLE between September of 1942 and June of 1943.
		The Canadian Fleet Air Arm pilot was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his attack against a Japanese escort on 9 August 1945.
	home.alltel.net /hensons/public_html/hangar.html (245 words)

	Ship Photographs - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		Commences with historical views of HMS GLORIOUS during her 1935/37 Med commission, operating various types of aircraft and on exercise with the Home Fleet.
		Finding film in the archives of HM Submarines is somewhat rare, thus it is quite pleasing to add to this programme views of the 8th flotilla and their depot ship HMS MAIDSTONE.
		Only one carrier, HMS INDEFATIGABLE, received a direct hit on the armoured flight deck, and although casualties were sustained, aircraft were able to land-on again within an hour, a considerable contrast with US carriers which were always more seriously damaged because they only had wooden flight decks.
	home.swipnet.se /ew-11578/photos.htm (1937 words)

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