Category: Royal Navy
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HMS Pursuer Royal Navy Escort Carrier
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
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British Aircraft Carrier HMS Formidable
British Aircraft Carrier HMS Formidable HMS Formidable was an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier ordered for the Royal Navy before the Second World War. After being completed in late 1940, she was briefly assigned to the Home Fleet before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet as a replacement for her crippled sister ship Illustrious. Formidable’s aircraft played Read more
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British Battleship HMS Malaya
HMS Malaya First World War A Queen Elizabeth class battleship, HMS Malaya was built by Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Company at High Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, and launched in March 1915. She was named in honour of the Federated Malay States in British Malaya, whose government paid for her construction. She took part Read more