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	Aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Modern aircraft carriers have a flat-top deck, the flight deck that serves as a take-off and landing area for aircraft.
		Several airships and balloons were destroyed, but as the carrier had no method of recovering the aircraft safely, two of the pilots ditched their aircraft in the sea alongside the carrier while the others headed for neutral Denmark.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aircraft_carrier (4295 words)

	AIRCRAFT CARRIER FACTS AND INFORMATION
		An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft—in effect acting as a sea-going airbase.
		The first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be developed was the HMS ''Hermes'', although the first one to be commissionned was the Japanese ''Hosho'' (commissioned in December 1922, followed by HMS ''Hermes'' in July 1923).
		However, the vulnerability of carriers to traditional battleships was quickly illustrated by the sinking of HMS ''Glorious'' by German battlecruisers during the Norwegian campaign in 1940.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /aircraft_carrier (4054 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (Fo-Fz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		She carries a crew of 208 and cargo of three 10 ton cranes; three 5 ton cranes; 3500 tons of armaments, And 12800 cubic meters of naval and victualling stores in four holds.
		She carries a crew of 105, including nine officers and is armed with one 3 inch calibre anti-surface gun and four Bofors 40 mm/56 anti-aircraft guns arranged as two twins and also two Oerlikon 20 mm guns.
		The secondary guns were carried at the corners of the superstructure and in the waist on sponsons, all behind shields.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /R5B.HTM (2463 words)

	Future Aircraft Carriers (CVF)
		aircraft carriers were originally conceived during the Cold War as anti-submarine cruisers designed to carry a small air group, mainly consisting of anti-submarine helicopters.
		For example, a problem with the Invincible Class was that the aircraft lifts were positioned in the middle of the flight deck and as a result they could not be used when aircraft were leaving or returning to the ship.
		It is clear that two carriers are needed to meet commitments as for instance in 1998 Invincible had to be redeployed from the Persian Gulf to Kosovo, placing a huge strain on the ship and her complement.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Today/cvf.htm (1553 words)

	Naval Technology - Invincible Class - Aircraft Carriers
		The two sister ships HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal, both built at the Swan Hunter Shipbuilders yard in Wallsend, were commissioned in 1982 and 1985.
		Since the end of the Cold War, the primary role of the 20,600t aircraft carriers has changed from sea control to maritime force projection, to include maritime strike, littoral manoeuvres and command and control of land operations.
		All three carriers are also equipped with two GAM-B01 20mm guns from Oerlikon-Contraves and BAE SYSTEMS, which have a maximum range of 2km and firing rate of 1,000 rounds/min.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/invincible (1048 words)

	ILLUSTRIOUS CLASS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		She was to be the aviation equivalent of a submarine or destroyer depot ship in providing major forward repair facilities for jobs beyond the capabilities of the average carrier.
		Though described as an 'aircraft maintenance carrier', it would appear that acting as a carrier was part of her specification, an option taken up due to the wartime shortage off light decks.
		The Unicorn shuttled with replacement aircraft to and from Singapore, her space frequently being used as short-term trooping accommodation.
	www.xsouth.freeserve.co.uk /UNICORN.htm (389 words)

	Royal Navy: Aircraft Carriers
		Since the end of the Cold War, the role of the Invincible Class aircraft carriers (CVS) has evolved from one of sea control to maritime force projection.
		The primary mission for the CVS is to deploy JFH and Fleet aircraft in pursuit of national objectives.
		Integrated with other task group units, aircraft, such as the Merlin HM Mk1 and Sea King ASaC Mk7, will be used to achieve the sea control (or freedom of action to use the sea for our own purpose) necessary to assure littoral access.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/148.html (704 words)

	HMS ILLUSTRIOUS aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		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.
		On 9 April 1945, she received underwater damage from a Kamikaze attack, and was forced to undertake temporary repairs at Leyte, and further repairs in Sydney in May 1945, and repairs and alterations in the UK from June 1945-June 1946.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/ILLUSTRIOUS.html (1091 words)

	Aircraft Carrier Essex History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		She was decommissioned in 1947, then modernized and recommissioned in 1951, with a new flight deck and streamlined superstructure.
		As flagship for Carrier Division 1, she was the first carrier to launch twin-engine F2H “Banshee” jet fighters in support of troops in Korea.
		Over her illustrious 27-year career, ESSEX was credited with sinking 92 and damaging 217 ships and destroying 1,564 aircraft.
	www.essex.navy.mil /history/cv9.htm (355 words)

	Invincible Class Aircraft Carrier
		As the Government of the day was not prepared to finance such a class of vessel as an aircraft carrier, the Navy came up with a number of euphemisms to hide the true nature of these vessels, such as calling them Through Deck Command Cruisers, and side elevation sketches showing a conventional profile.
		While the first of class was under construction changes were announced, which included the ordering of twenty-four Sea Harriers, to carry out the interceptor role, and would be equipped with the Ferranti Blue Fox monopulse radar, an integrated nav/attack system, provision for air-to-air missiles and a heads-up display.
		While Hermes sailed for the UK at the end of the conflict, Illustrious remained and was finally relieved by her new sister ship, Invincible.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/weapons_invincibleclass.html (513 words)

	World Aircraft Carriers List: RN WWII-Era Fleet Aircraft Carriers
		Aft flying deck added 11/1917 to 2/1918; reclassified as aircraft carrier during conversion, recommissioned 15 March 1918.
		Generally a good design, well armed and protected, good for aircraft operations, etc. One flaw was the arrangement of boiler exhausts, which lead to her loss.
		Aircraft capacity was reduced to 59 by 1954.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/uk_fleet.htm (3012 words)

	Navy Matters \| Future Aircraft Carrier Pre-Downselect Part 1
		The Invincible class of carriers were designed for Cold War anti-submarine warfare operations, with an airgroup of mainly ASW helicopters plus a limited air defence capability provided by a small number of embarked Sea Harriers.
		Concurrent with plans for the Future Aircraft Carrier and critical to its success is the "Joint Combat Aircraft" (JCA) programme, formally known as the "Future Carrier Borne Aircraft" (FCBA) programme.
		When plans for the new carriers were formally announced in 1998 their displacement was estimated at 30,000 to 40,000 tonne and it was stated that the maximum CVF length being considered was 300 metres (984 feet).
	navy-matters.beedall.com /cvf3-1.htm (13810 words)

	Aircraft Carrier FAQs part 3
		I'd think it would work on an aircraft carrier as well, as the linoleum would resist oil, etc. Old household linoleum had asbestos in it, too, and I wonder if there may have been something similar on the carriers.
		According to them, teak was used upto and including the Ise class, and that the Nagato and Yamato classes had to use cypress primarily because of lack of teak.
		Katsuragi is an Unryu class, which is a modified Hiryu class, and the bridge and the funnels were separated.
	www.j-aircraft.com /faq/aircraft_carrier_pt3.htm (5239 words)

	HMS Indomitable
		This increased her aircraft carrying capacity to 48 instead of 36.
		He was very unfortuantate to be killed as he had already survived the sinking of the Prince of Wales and the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes.
		The Illustrious and Implacable Classes of Aircraft Carrier 1940 - 1969 by Neil McCart
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_indomitable.htm (1218 words)

	ILLUSTRIOUS CLASS
		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.
		Operational experience was, therefore, not a part of the later concept, which took the scale of the Ark Royals belt and horizontal protection, and added a 114mm (4.5-in) hangar well.
		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.xsouth.freeserve.co.uk /illustrious_class.htm (391 words)

	Navy - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com
		HMS Ocean is the Royal Navy's first purpose built amphibious helicopter carrier.
		HMS Shetland - Fishery Protection Squadron Island Class Offshore Patrol Vessel, Newcastle upon Tyne.
		HMS Illustrious - Invincible Class aircraft carrier, Portsmouth
	www.freefoto.com /browse.jsp?id=22-02-23 (241 words)

	Steelnavy.com Feature Articles
		Evolution of the Later C Class Cruisers of the Royal Navy - Built during World War One to support the battle fleet, these cruisers did not have the range for a trade route protection mission.
		HMS Illustrious 1940, Plan View of Island - These are three drawings of the plan view that depict the fore end of the island at 'flight deck' and 'A' deck level of the island of
		Essex Class Aircraft Carriers Reference Guide - John Sheridan has created a guide for those of you who are modeling the Trumpeter Essex kit.
	www.steelnavy.com /articles.htm (2213 words)

	Naval Technology - Invincible Class Aircraft Carriers - Specifications
		Naval Technology - Invincible Class Aircraft Carriers - Specifications
		SPECIFICATIONS - INVINCIBLE CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, UNITED KINGDOM
		3 x Goalkeeper 30mm gun (HMS Invincible, Illustrious)
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/invincible/specs.html (68 words)

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