Service with the Royal Navy as a carrier was shortlived, being put in reserve in September 1949, but Warrior was soon recommissioned as a transport for troops and aircraft to support British forces in the Korean War from June 1950.
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HMS Impregnable: The True and Original HMS Impregnable will be holding their annual reunion from May 12 to 14 - so keep your eyes open for more details of this fantastic association that gets better each year.
HMSWarriorR31 (1946-1958): will be holding their 2006 reunion at the County Hotel on the weekend of 12th - 15th May. Our association is open to all ex Warriors of the time and should contact John Carr for further details
HMS Fleetwood Association: are holding their 6th annual reunion at the Royal Sailors Home Club Portsmouth from May 14 to 17.
Warrior was faddismed by Harland und Wolff, Belfast, und at first to be whooped Brave.
The smuggle underwent refit as superlative of 1952 und 1953 at Devonport Dockyard, und after a succinct to srvice was freshly put in for refit on 14 December1954.
Although less capable than her USN counterparts, HMS Triumph played a key role in the war by being in the right place at the right time, and her contribution was, thus, more significant than that of forces who were too far away.
HMS Glory, another of the ubiquitous light fleet carriers, carried the re-formed 14th CAG equipped with Sea Furies and Firefly FR5s, which were to be the standard Commonwealth carrier fighter-bombers for the rest of the war.
HMS Ocean instituted pre-dawn missions, and these proved very productive of targets as the aircraft found enemy road transport that was still on the move.
Flexible deck landing trials were undertaken by Warrior, Perseus was fitted with an experimental steam catapult and Triumph conducted angled flight deck trials.
The requirement for afloat aircraft maintenance facilities, and the success of HMS Unicorn in this role, prompted her completion as an Aircraft Maintenance vessel and she was renamed Pioneer.
Ordered and laid down as Edgar, the requirement for afloat aircraft maintenance facilities, and the success of HMS Unicorn in this role, prompted her completion as an Aircraft Maintenance vessel and she was renamed Perseus.
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Flagship Portsmouth - Mary Rose HMS Victory HMSWarrior Royal Naval Museum Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
The illustrated guide for modeling HMSWarrior (74), 1781: The practicum approach for ship model construction
Being involved in a simular project, I looked for, and found much useful information here, There were some things that were less detailed than I would have liked, otherwise, the book will inspire anyone contemplating such a project.
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Independencia (ex-Warrior) Brazilian Navy Minas Gerais (ex-Vengeance) List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy This Canadian military article is a stub.
The other carrier seen in one of the pics is HMS Eagle, at the Firth of Forth.
Thanks man for posting this, my father can still remember driving over the Macdonald bridge as a child and seeing that ship docked at CFB Halifax, again man I am very suprised to see this thread about something that hits so close to home.
we actually had 3, there was also the HMCS Warrior.
> Whats sad is they used to have the second largest air force in the world and used to have ships like Warrior: http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/images/other/r31-1.jpg
> Lowley escort carriers like HMS Nabob went into harms way to strike at Tirpiz in '44 (Operation Goodwood) and then again into the Barents sea for convoy operations.
She was torpedoed by a German Sub in both cases but survived.
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HMSWarrior (R31) (later CVL 20) was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1946 to 1948, the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1958, and the Argentine Navy from 1959 to 1969.
After the arrival of the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2) in 1969, she passed to the reserve and then in 1971 was scrapped.
