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The 1 Time Battleships Actually Sunk an Aircraft Carrier
Summary and Key Points: On June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was ambushed by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea. Lacking radar ...
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HMS The Prince of Wales, “an unlucky ship or an aircraft carrier with a limp”
HMS Prince of Wales is “an unlucky ship”, or why it keeps breaking down, which means the aircraft carrier has spent more time in dry dock than at sea. The £3 billion aircraft carrier ...
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HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first QE Class aircraft carrier takes to sea for the 1st. time
HMS Queen Elizabeth has taken more than eight years to build and is the first of two new carriers for the Navy; a second, the Prince of Wales, will follow in two years' time.