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HMS Furious |
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HMS Furious Laid Down : 8th June 1915 Launched : 15th August 1916 Completed : 26th June 1917 Type : Battleship Class : Courageous Builder : Armstrong Country : UK Sequence : This is the 5th ship with this name. Pennants : 47 Fate : Converted and reclassified as an Aircraft Carrier, September 1925. Later became : HMS Furious |
| HMS Furious was third battlecruiser (following on form HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous) to be given Two 18-inch guns (one each fore and aft turrets) , the turret rings were made the same size as the rings for the 15-inch gun turrets in case problems arose with the 18- inch guns. HMS Furious was nearly completed at Elswick, when the Admiralty decided on the 19th march 1917, to modify the battlecruiser, with a slopping flying off deck which extended to the forecastle, also fitted with two derricks for hoisting aircraft aboard. The ship was completed with the flight deck and one foreword turret on the 4th July 1917 when she joined the Fleet. A few months later on the 4th July 1917, a more drastic conversion was added giving her an after flight deck, making her a full aircraft carrier. Displacement: 19,513 Speed: 31.5 knots Compliment: 880 Armament: two 18-inch guns in pairs, eleven 5.5 inch guns, two 3 inch guns , four 3 pdr guns and two 21 inch torpedo tubes. |
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8th June 1915 - Laid down at Armstrong Whitworth, Wallsend 15th August 1916 - Pennant Number 47 15th August 1916 - Launched 1917 - Converted To Carrier 26th June 1917 - Commissioned March 1918 - Home Fleet 19th July 1918 - Launched Seven 2F1's and destroyed three Zeppelin hangars in Tondern 1st June 1919 - Flying Squadron, Atlantic Fleet 21st July 1919 - Peace Sea Pageant - Southend 7th October 1919 - Sailed Rosyth 3rd November 1919 - Sailed Invergordon for Dundee 5th November 1919 - Sailed Dundee for Rosyth 1922 - Converted to carrier | |||
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Last edited : 16:33, October 12, 2012
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