Ark Royal HMS

Ship Details

Rig

Aircraft Carrier

Built

1950

Built In

Tonnage

36800

Demise

scrapped in 1980

Description

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1979, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier. She was the first aircraft carrier to be equipped with angled flight deck at its commissioning; her sister ship, HMS Eagle, was the Royal Navy's first angle-decked aircraft carrier after modification in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(R09) (accessed on 20/9/2017)

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