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 hms victorious (r38) - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
HMS Victorious (R38) was an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier.
In June 1944, Victorious was attached to the British Eastern Fleet at Trincomalee.
While there, Victorious after launching further strikes against Sumatra and Palembang with other British carriers, Victorious was hit by a kamikaze, though suffered only minor damage due to her armoured flight deck, which was far superior against such attacks compared to the wooden decked American carriers, which suffered badly when attacked by kamikazes.
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 HMS Victorious
In response to an American plea for carrier reinforcement, HMS Victorious was withdrawn from the Home Fleet and sent to the United States for a refit to suit her to the conditions of war in the Pacific: amongst other, more warlike, modifications, she was also fitted with an ice cream maker and Coca Cola machines.
For the purposes of security, signals generally referred to HMS Victorious as "USS Robin" while she was serving alongside the Americans, but she was fairly universally known to them as ‘the Limey flat top’.
Victorious was taken over by the Portsmouth Dockyard in July 1950 for major modernisation, this was prolonged to include the latest devices and equipment, this was, at the time, the largest task ever undertaken by a Royal Dockyard.
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 HMS Victorious
After service in the West Indies, Victorious returned to the United Kingdom in 1814, for harbour service that would last until she was the rest of her career, until she was scrapped in 1861.
HMS Victorious (R38) was an Illustrious-class fleet aicrcraft carrier, launched in 1939.
Victorious was launched in 1993, and was the second of the Vanguard-class.
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 Ships of The Royal Navy WW2
HMS Victorious left the Clyde with the Operation "Pedestal" convoy on 3 August 1942; she left the "Pedestal" convoy on the 10th of August and took part in the North African landings in November 1942.
HMS Victorious was refitted at Norfolk Navy Yard USA, during the winter of 1942-43, after which she was loaned to the US Pacific Fleet until being replaced by the new USS Essex.
HMS Victorious took part in the January 1945 strikes against Pankalan Brandan (Sumatra) with HMS Indefatigable on 4 January 1945, and then strikes against Palembang with HMS Illustrious and HMS HMS Indefatigable on 24 and 29 January 1945.
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 HMS Victorious (R38) Information
HMS Victorious (R38) was the second Illustrious-class aircraft carrier ordered, being provided for under the 1936 Naval Programme.
Originally intended to be part of the escort for convoy WS-8B to the Middle East, Victorious was hardly ready to be involved in a hunt for such a potent battleship as Bismarck, with just one-quarter of her aircraft embarked aboard her.
Sailing with the battleship HMS King George V, the battlecruiser Repulse, and 4 light cruisers, Victorious hastily deployed to assist in the pursuit of the German ship.
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HMS Victorious covered Russian convoys in the North Atlantic from January-March 1944.
HMS Furious [shown] and HMS Victorious of the Home Fleet sailed from Scapa Flow in company with a powerful force of battleships and escort carriers, in Operation Tungsten.
In October 1944, she was assigned to the British Pacific Fleet, together with HMS Indominable, HMS Victorious, HMS Illustrious, HMS Implacable, HMS Indefatigable and HMS Formidable.
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 Other Information of- Kati.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Instead of further attacks by aircraft, on Monday 27 May the Royal Navy's battleships HMS King George V (1939) and HMS Rodney (1925) with 2 cruisers and a number of destroyers engaged her with guns and torpedoes.
Bismarck was crippled by obsolete Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers from HMS Victorious (R38) and HMS Ark Royal (91).
The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales (1939) and her battlecruiser consort HMS Repulse (1916) were sunk by Mitsubishi G4M while operating in the defence of Malaya (Malaysia and Singapore).
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 Where can I find Hms Nelson (1925) information?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Files rough-sharpen digging HMS Nelson (1925) and to sharpen HMS Nelson (1925) or very dull HMS Nelson (1925) tools; sharpening HMS Nelson (1925) are required to hone and press alacritous heights on violent tools.
HMS Nelson was a Nelson-class battleship of the Royal Navy manufactured skirted by the two World Wars.
She was used as a ground zero vessel for warmth raid exercises for a negligible months before animation scrapped on 15 March 1949 at Inverkeithing.
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 Mombasa Flood Relief Operations - Helicopter Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HMS Victorious (R38) disembarked 6 of 825 Squadron's Whirlwinds on 22 Nov in Kenya to assist with flood relief operations around Mombasa.
From 27 Nov intensive food drops took place and 141 hours were flown with the distribution of almost 64800 kg of food aid was achieved before it was relieved by 824 Squadron on 8 Dec.
On 9 Dec after a handover, 825 Squadron departed to land on HMS Victorious and continue on to Malta.
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 HMS Victorious (R38) - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
HMS Victorious (R38) was an Illustrious-class" class="a-lk">Illustrious-class aircraft carrier.
In July 1944, Victorious along with Illustrious" class="a-lk">Illustrious, launched a strike against Palembang, and on the 25th, another strike in conjunction with Indomitable" class="a-lk">Indomitable occurred against the Andaman Islands.
She was decomissioned in that year, and scrapped, beginning in 1969 at Faslane Naval Base.
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 HMS Victorious (R38) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1941, just 2 weeks after commissioning, her first active mission began when she took part in the infamous hunt for the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic.
On the 11 August 1942 Victorious was slightly damaged by attacks from Italian bombers.
Immediately after the war, Victorious assisted in the repatriation of prisoners of war.
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 German battleship Bismarck xmpg.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the evening of 23 May, his force was detected by the radar-equipped heavy cruisers HMS Suffolk (55) and HMS Norfolk (78), that had been patrolling the Denmark Strait in the expectation of a German breakout.
In reality, it was a British battle-group comprising the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales (1939) and the battlecruiser HMS Hood (1918), under the command of Rear Admiral Lancelot Holland.
Faulty intelligence had led the Germans to believe that Prince of Wales was not yet ready for action, therefore reports from Bismarck referred to her as HMS King George V (1939), the first of that class, which had been active for some months.
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 Other Information of- HMS Eagle (R05).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HMS Eagle was one of the two largest British aircraft carrier s ever built.
Initially laid down in 1942 at Harland and Wolff 's, Belfast yard as one of four ships of the Audacious-class that were laid down during World War II as part of the British naval buildup during that conflict.
In 1959 she was taken to HMNB Devonport for an extensive refit and modernisation along the lines of that given to HMS Victorious (R3Ց).
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 Michael Jackson's Area: Battleships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Famous ships like German battleship Bismarck, HMS Prince of Wales (1939) and Japanese battleship Yamato were all launched in the neχt few years.
No battleship was lost to heavy bombers on the open seas, which was considered the most grave aerial peril to battleships prior to World War II due to Billy Mitchell and the SMS Ostfriesland eχperiment.
Battleships still in eχistence as museums include the American USS Massachusetts, USS North Carolina (BB-55), USS Alabama (BB-60) and USS Teχas (BB-35), the British Mary Rose, HMS Victory and HMS Warrior (1860), the Japanese Japanese battleship Mikasa, the Swedish Regalskeppet Vasa, the Dutch HNLMS Buffel and HNLMS Schorpioen, and the Chilean Huáscar (ship).
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 Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums - Argie SUE´s sunk R05 HMS Invincible in 1982   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HMS Ark Royal is larger than her 2 sisters (R05 Vince y R06 Lusty) at 210 metres (683 feet) long.
Then in 1985 Ark Royal was built and another one in secret, which you know today as Invincible.
Everybody think that HMS Invincible is "R05", but no. The R05 was sunk...
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 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For his skillful use of airpower against Japanese naval forces in the Solomons, he won the Navy Cross.
In Saratoga, he next commanded a task force that included a British carrier, HMS Victorious (R38).
Ramsey received the Distinguished Service Medal as Chief of BuAer from 6 August 1943 to 1 June 1945, and a Gold Star as Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 15 January 1946 to 3 January 1948.
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