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	HMS Illustrious (R87) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth HMS Illustrious (R87) of the Royal Navy was an aircraft carrier, seeing service in World War II.
		The namesake of a new class of carriers which included, in addition to the Illustrious, the Victorious, the Formidable and the Indomitable, Illustrious was built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, launched in 1939, and commissioned in May 1940.
		On 11 November 1940, it became the first carrier in history to launch a major strike against an enemy fleet in a daring attack against the Italian fleet at Taranto.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Illustrious_(R87) (711 words)

	HMS Illustrious - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second Illustrious was launched at Rotherhithe in 1803 and was like her predecessor a 74-gun Third-rate.
		The third Illustrious was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought, launched in 1896 and scrapped in 1920.
		The fourth Illustrious was an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940, the year she became the first carrier to strike against an enemy fleet, and was in service until 1954.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Illustrious (369 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Aircraft Carrier HMS Illustrious of the Illustrious class
		HMS Illustrious took part in the strike on the Italian Fleet at Taranto during the night of 11-12 November 1940.
		HMS Illustrious was part of Malta convoys between September-October, and again on Malta convoys from November 1940 to January 1941.
		On 15 September 1940 the British battlesship HMS Valiant, the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, the heavy cruiser HMS Kent and 7 destroyers left Alexandria.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/3258.html (973 words)

	HMS Illustrious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HMS Illustrious was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, laid down on 27 April 1937 and launched 5 April 1939.
		As 5000 tons of armour had to be worked into a treaty limit of 23,000 tons, Illustrious was consequently considerably shorter than Ark Royal, and because the flight deck armour weighed 1500 tons, the second hangar deck was omitted to reduce the freeboard by 22 feet and preserve stability.
		Illustrious or “Lusty” as she is fondly know to her crew was built at Swan Hunter on the Tyne and subsequently commissioned in her base port of Portsmouth in 1 982.
	www.mgbv8.org /hms_illustrious.htm (224 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMS Coventry of the Ceres class
		HMS Coventry (Capt. R.J.R. Dendy) was heavily damaged in the Eastern Mediterranean, northwest of Alexandria, Egypt in position 32.48N, 28.17E by German Ju-87 divebombers.
		HMS Coventry was damaged in a German air attack on the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland.
		HMS Coventry was torpedoed and damaged by the Italian submarine Neghelli in the eastern Mediterranean in position 32.37N, 26.44E.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1198.html (289 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Royal navy 1940
		Illustrious still wasn't finished in May 1941 when it went chasing the Bismarck, Indomitable was still a year out from being commissioned in September 39.
		From example, HMS Hood was at Scapa Flow at September 1940.
		HMS Rodney was at Rosyth at that time possibly with Nelson.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=216631 (1457 words)

	HMS Illustrious 1939
		HMS Illustrious is shown leaving Devonport with HMS Kenya in new naval art print and painting by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Illustrious and HMS Kenya at Devonport by Ivan Berryman
		HMS Illustrious slips quietly away from the docks at Devonport, Plymouth with the Fiji class cruiser in the middle distance, 1941.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_illustrious.htm (1038 words)

	RO-6 Illustrious
		HMS Illustrious is the second of three Invincible class aircraft carriers and the fifth ship of the name.
		Illustrious or “Lusty” as she is fondly know to her crew was built at Swan Hunter on the Tyne and subsequently commissioned in her base port of Portsmouth in 1982.
		HMS Illustrious was built at Swan Hunters on the Tyne and was launched in 1982 by HRH Princess Margaret.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/ro-6.htm (616 words)

	HMS ILLUSTRIOUS
		HMS Illustrious spent only six months in the Mediterranean, but her involvement in that short space of time was to have far-reaching consequences, both locally and halfway around the world.
		Illustrious was part of a convoy escort, along with the battleships Warspite and Valiant and a screen of five destroyers, bound for Malta and Greece, when the carrier was attacked at 12.20 by two Italian SM79 torpedo-bombers north-west of Malta.
		Illustrious turned into the wind and launched four more fighters, which had been due to relieve her CAP at 12.35 in any case, but too late; the Ju87s began their attack at 12.38 from 12,000 feet without fighter opposition, thirty concentrating on the carrier and ten attacking the two battleships.
	world.std.com /~Ted7/Illus.htm (2669 words)

	HMS Ark Royal, Hermes and Illustrious, etc. quiz
		HMS Ark Royal spent all of her active wartime career in the Mediterranean.
		HMS Ark Royal was involved in the pursuit / attack and sinking of the famous German Battleship Bismarck, which force was she part of ?
		HMS Hermes was the first purpose built aircraft carrier in the Royal Navy.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz14616610bd858.html (362 words)

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		HMS Formidable the Illustrious class Aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, laid down 17 June 1937, launched 17 August 1939 and commissioned 24 November 1940.
		The "Illustrious" Class ships were to have a hangar protected against 500lb bombs and 6" shells; this meant armouring the flight deck, and extending the vertical armour upwards to meet it.
		HMS Formidable was refitted between January -June 1944 and then her aircraft were involved in the operation "Mascot" attacks on the German Battleship
	hmsformidable.org /Formy_Facts.htm (872 words)

	HMS ILLUSTRIOUS aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		Illustrious is best remembered for her strike on the Italian Fleet at Taranto on the night of 11-12 November 1940.
		HMS Illustrious was heavily damaged by a concerted enemy air attack by German dive-bombers on 10 January 1941, when the armoured flight deck armour was penetrated by an 1100lb (500kg) bomb.
		By May 1942, HMS Illustrious was on operations against Vichy French forces in Diego Suarez Madagascar, and remained in the Indian Ocean from May 1942 until January 1943, where she undertook further operations against Madagascar in September 1942.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/ILLUSTRIOUS.html (1091 words)

	880 Squadron Hangar Deck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I (R/N1985) assigned to 806 Squadron, which was detached for the carrier HMS Illustrious to Heraklion, Crete for air defense, in February of 1941.
		I (4K/N4424) from the HMS Formidable was disembarked from the carrier after it was damaged and flew from bases in Egypt during the Fall of 1941.
		Barracuda MK.II (4A/LS550) from the carrier HMS Victorious was flown by the Commanding Officer (CO) of 829 Squadron during a raid on German shipping at Bodo, Norway on April 26, 1944.
	home.alltel.net /hensons/public_html/hangar.html (397 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - HMS Glasgow - A1987789
		HMS Glasgow engaged 31 enemy aircraft with her four-inch HA armament as they made direct approaches,passing runs or retired from the scene, expending 668 rounds of ammunition in the process.
		On the 6th June 1940, in Liverpool, the command of HMS Glasgow was transferred from Captain Pegram to Captain Harold Hickling.
		During the attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto, on the 11th November 1940, by Swordfish aircraaft launched from the aircraft carrier Illustrious HMS Glasgow was amongst the British warships providing escort cover for the carrier.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1987789 (3420 words)

	Alternate Campaigns: Africa, the Med, and the Middle East
		In 1940, anxious to decrease the number of "backdoors" it had to watch, Britain gathered a rather motley collection of colonial infantry, half-trained air units armed with obsolete equipment (including South African Air Force Ju-86 bombers!), and a few armored cars, and invaded the Italian holdings in East Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland).
		Illustrious did not sink, but managed to escape to America, where she was repaired and returned to combat 18 months later.
		In March and April, 1940, a civilized (demilitarized) Hudson bomber (basically, a Lockheed Super Electra 14 with civilian registration) was sent on photo recon missions 20,000 ft over Iraq to the Batum area.
	world.std.com /~Ted7/altcamp3.htm (2694 words)

	The Tiger-Lair.org - World Wide Tigers - United Kingdom - 814 Squadron 'Flying Tigers' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HMS Hermes sailed for West Africa where, together with French ships, they were to search for the German battleship Graf Spee.
		In December 1940 HMS Hermes sailed for the Indian Ocean for convoy protection duties.
		In August 1982 the Squadron embarked in the newly commissioned HMS Illustrious for South Atlantic patrols.
	www.tiger-lair.org /The.Lair/WW.Tigers/wwt.europe/GBR_814Sqn (498 words)

	H.M.S.Illustrious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On January 19th the Illustrious was hit again but despite the damage a miracle was performed by the repairers in HM Dockyard Four days later the Illustrious was able to leave and reach Egypt safely The Illustrious' blitz began seventy Ju87's and Ju88's escorted by CR42's attacked Grand Harbour
		The second Illustrious, also a 74 gun frigate, was launched at Rotherhithe in 1803, she had a long career winning battle honours at Basque Roads and Java before becoming a training ship in 1854.She was broken up in Portsmouth in 1868.
		The third Illustrious, a battle ship with 12 and 6 inch guns was launched in 1896, already obsolete in 1914, she spent most of the war as an Ammunition Store Ship and was scrapped in 1921
	louishenwood.com /Illustrious.html (748 words)

	HMS Eagle
		HMS Eagle was built at Clydebank, and was launched on the 8th pf June 1918, a former Battleship construction suspended in 1914.
		The destroyer HMS Kelly passes close to the old carrier HMS Eagle as she escorts a convoy in the Mediterranean early in 1941.
		HMS Barham with HMS Eagle in Valetta Harbour in Malta during the 1930s by Ivan Berryman.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_eagle1.htm (648 words)

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		HMS Wessex is bombed and sunk off Calais as she supports the defenders 1940 - The newly completed HMS Illustrious, escorted by destroyers HMS Escort, Vanoc & Witherington departed the Clyde at 0300 for acceptance trials.
		She returned that afternoon 1940 - HMS Ark Royal arrives off Scapa Flow, but fog delays her entry into harbor until 1940.
		Wanklyn received the Victoria Cross 1941 - The newly completed battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood intercepted the German battleship Bismarck and her consort, the cruiser Prinz Eugen, in the Denmark Straits.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/may/24May.txt (897 words)

	24 May 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HMS Ark Royal is off Scapa, but fog delays her entry into harbour until 1940.
		Meanwhile, at 1315 HMS Glorious departs Scapa escorted by destroyers HMS Wren, HMS Arrow, and HMS Highlander.
		W class destroyer HMS Wessex is bombed repeatedly and sunk off Calais at 51 00N, 16 37E, as she supports the defenders.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/05/24.htm (543 words)

	History : HMS Illustrious : Aircraft Carriers : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first HMS Illustrious, a 74-gun Third Rate ship of the line, was launched at Buckler's Hard in 1789 and saw action against the French off Toulon in 1793 and at Genoa in 1795.
		The third HMS Illustrious was launched in 1896.
		Her first theatre of action was the Mediterranean in defence of the Malta convoys and where, on 11 November 1940, twenty Swordfish aircraft attacked the Italian Naval Base at Taranto.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server.php?show=nav.1264 (392 words)

	Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier.Illustrious Class (HMS Illustrious, HMS Victorious, HMS Formidable, HMS Indomitable).
		(HMS Illustrious, HMS Victorious, HMS Formidable, HMS Indomitable).
		All went through various war-time reconstructions including a slight increase in deck space, provisions for deck parking of aircraft which increased capacity to 54 and a large increase in AA guns.
		The increase in size of aircraft, particularly jets, made post-war use of the Illustrious class impractical due to a lack of hangar height.
	www.geocities.com /baltimore_cfs2/hms_illustrious.htm (325 words)

	Heller / Airfix 1:400 HMS Illustrious British WW2 Aircraft Carrier (81089) \| Antics Online
		Illustrious was a fleet aircraft-carrier with a displacementof 23,000 tons standard and 25, 500 tons full load.
		Though late coming, she had hardly been launched when a new 'Illustrious' class of four aircraft-carriers was laid down in 1937 to respond to the already increasing likelihood of war.
		Thus the whole of the vulnerable aircraft accommodation became an armoured box, but so much weight high in the ship limited the protection to only one hangar and, though HMS Illustrious, HMS Victorious and HMS Formidable (all launched in 1939) were not significantly smaller than the Ark Royal, they carried far fewer aircraft.
	www.shipmodels.co.uk /627_1_1425874.html (540 words)

	The Wartime Memories Project - HMS Formidable
		HMS Formidable was an Aircraft Carrier of the Illustrious class.
		Subsequently she was called to the Mediterranean to replace the damaged HMS Illustrious in February 1941.
		HMS Formidable was refitted between January and June 1944 and then her aircraft were involved in Operation "Mascot" an attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz in Norway on the 17th July 1944.
	www.wartimememories.co.uk /ships/formidable.html (506 words)

	Civ3 :: View topic - Early Brittish Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For the first two months of 1940 she was escorting troop transports in the Indian Ocean but on 14 March 1940 was damaged by an internal explosion in her fore bomb room, when 13 ratings were killed, and she returned to Singapore for repairs.
		On 11 November 1940, five of her aircraft which were embarked in HMS Illustrious took part in the attack on Italian battleships at Taranto.
		HMS Argus was initially laid down in 1914 as the Italian ocean liner Conte Rosso.
	www.cdgroup.org /forums/tbs/civ3/viewtopic.php?p=86665 (2066 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Carriers: Airpower at Sea - The Great Carrier War / Part 2
		On November 11, 1940, more than a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the HMS Illustrious achieve a spectacularly successful air attack against a naval fleet comprising battleships, the traditional symbol of sea power.
		They attacked the HMS Illustrious on January 10, 1941, causing such extensive damage to the carrier, that she had to be withdrawn to the United States for repairs.
		Two months later, the HMS Formidable was attacked by 12 German dive bombers while she was returning from raids on Crete.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/carriers/cvchap2b.htm (598 words)

	HMS ILLUSTRIOUS - Find Friends from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS at Forces Reunited
		William Brown was at HMS Illustrious between 1975 and 1999
		Sarah Greenough was at HMS Illustrious between 1990 and 1994
		Sarah Toland was at HMS Illustrious between 1991 and 2001
	www.forcesreunited.org.uk /namearchive/units/HMSNames/HMS-Illustrious.html (2506 words)

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