Category: Aircraft

  • HMS Pursuer Royal Navy Escort Carrier

    HMS Pursuer Royal Navy Escort Carrier
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    HMS Pursuer D73 HMS Pursuer was an Attacker-class escort carrier of the Royal Navy in World War Two. Built in the US in 1942, she was transferred and commissioned into the Royal Navy in July 1943. Although used primarily as a convoy escort on 3 April 1944, she provided fighter support for an air strike Read more

  • HMAS Albatross (1928) Seaplane Carrier

    HMAS Albatross (1928) Seaplane Carrier
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    HMAS Albatross (1928) HMAS Albatross (later HMS Albatross) was a seaplane tender of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), which was later transferred to the Royal Navy and used as a repair ship. Albatross was built by Cockatoo Island Dockyard during the mid-1920s and entered service at the start of 1929. The ship experienced problems with Read more

  • Lockheed Altair

    Lockheed Altair
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    Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross Replica – Balranald Southern Cross Museum The Lady Southern Cross was a Lockheed Altair monoplane owned by Australian pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. In this aircraft, Kingsford Smith made the first eastward trans-Pacific flight from Australia to the United States, in October and November of 1934. In 1935 while Read more