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| HMS Ark Royal (1950) Naval Art Prints, Paintings and Drawings |
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Ark Royal by Philip West. HMS Ark Royal IV - Flagship of the Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers - a mobile airfield and a most impressive sight as she launches a Phantom from one of her catapults. She had a standard displacement of 43,000 tons, a beam of 168 feet, and was 846 feet long. Ships company numbered 2,570 and her Air Group consisted of Phantom Interceptors, Buccaneer strike and Gannet AEW aircraft together with Wessex SAR and Sea King ASW helicopters. She served her Nation and the Royal Navy for 23 years and sailed 800,000 miles of valuable service, finally being decommissioned in 1979. |
HMS Ark Royal (1970s Carrier) by Ivan Berryman. HMS Ark Royal was the fourth ship in the Royal Navy to bear this memorable name. By far the most impressive, this mighty ship was built to include the angled flight deck, a revolutionary development at the time, with steam catapult. The end of fixed wing aircraft saw Ark Royal quickly become obsolete, being paid off in 1978. |
Ark's Angels by Randall Wilson. Depicted late in her long serving deployments Ark Royals Bricks make a pass as they return from a low level interdiction exercise. |
Three Ark Royals 1938 - 1999 by Neil McCart. This is the first, and only, book to tell the full stories of the last three Ark Royals in detail; the wartime Ark Royal which saw so much action in the first two years of the Second World War; the Ark Royal of the 1950s, 60s and 70s which, during the years of intense antagonism between the superpowers, projected British maritime air power all over the world; and the present Ark Royal which will take the Fleet Air Arm into the 21st century. The in - depth research has allowed the author to cover the careers of all three carriers, through each year of their operational service with the Royal Navy. There are 165 top quality photographs, including 15 in colour, covering their careers, from the launching of the third Ark Royal in 1937, right through to the present Ark Royals final deployment in the last decade of the 20th century. |
Ark Royal by Robert Taylor Robert Taylors tribute to HMS Ark Royal, Britains last conventional aircraft carrier, seen steaming with her Phantoms on deck. Launched in 1950, HMS Ark Royal entered service in 1955 and her flag flying tours over the next two decades took her to the far corners of the world. |
HMS Ark Royal  Launched : 3rd May 1950 Deck letter R. Laid down as HMS Irresistible she was renamed Ark Royal prior to launching. Her sister ship, HMS Eagle, was originally to be called Audacious, hence the class name of Audacious. The remaining two of the proposed class were cancelled at the end of the war. She was the first British aircraft carrier to be completed with an angled flight deck and steam catapults, as opposed to having them fitted after completion. She was decommissioned on 14th February 1979 and was eventually scrapped at Cairnryan, arriving in September 1980. Scrapped 1980. |
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