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HMS Furious |
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HMS Furious Laid Down : Launched : September 1925 Completed : Type : Aircraft Carrier Class : Courageous Builder : Armstrong Country : UK Sequence : This is the 6th ship with this name. Pennants : 47 Fate : Sold for scrapping, 23rd January 1948. Was previously : HMS Furious |  |
| Modified while building to carry aircraft in a hangar on the focsle. Converted to Aircraft Carrier, between June 1921 and September 1925. Re-classified as an Aircraft Carrier on commissioning in September 1925. |
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HMS Furious Photos for Sale |
  HMS Furious, 1918. |   HMS Furious, 1918. |   HMS Furious, c.1920. |   HMS Furious, May 1935. |   HMS Furious, May 1935. |
  HMS Furious, July 1935. |   HMS Furious, May 1948. |   HMS Furious |   HMS Furious |   HMS Furious. |
  HMS Furious. |   HMS Furious. (P) |
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Name | Start of Service | End of Service | Known Date |
9th April 1940 | 16th March 1943 | ||
Timeline Entries : | |||
4th November 1925 - Sailed Portsmouth for Portland 4th November 1925 - Capt. J.L. Pearson in Command 24th May 1926 - Sailed Portsmouth for South Queensferry 12th July 1926 - Arrived Torbay 16th July 1926 - Arrived Portland 1st March 1927 - At Gibraltar for Exercises 11th March 1927 - Arrived Gibraltar after Exercises 18th March 1929 - Exercising off North Africa Coast 19th March 1929 - Arrived Pollensa Bay 18th April 1932 - Arrived Spithead from Plymouth 18th April 1932 - Capt. C.F.S. Danby in Command 19th April 1932 - Arrived Spithead 29th April 1932 - Commenced deck landing training from Rosyth 15th May 1932 - Sailed Invergordon 15th May 1932 - Arrived Loch Eriboli 28th May 1932 - Sailed Loch Eriboli 28th May 1932 - Arrived Scapa Flow 4th June 1932 - Sailed Scapa Flow 5th June 1932 - Arrived Portree 10th June 1932 - Sailed Portree 11th June 1932 - Arrived Larne 20th June 1932 - Sailed Larne 22nd June 1932 - Arrived Torbay for Dartmouth 26th June 1932 - Sailed Portsmouth for Cruise 30th June 1932 - Sailed Torbay 30th June 1932 - Arrived Portsmouth 1st October 1932 - Capt. C. F. S. Danby in Command 1st October 1932 - Home Fleet 3rd January 1933 - Sailed Plymouth for Spithead 4th January 1933 - Arrived Portsmouth 26th January 1933 - Arrived Gulf of Patras 7th March 1933 - Sailed Malta for Pollensa Bay 15th March 1933 - Sailed Palma for Gibraltar 22nd June 1933 - Arrived Newcastle, County Down 2nd January 1934 - Sailed Plymouth for Portsmouth 2nd January 1934 - Arrived Portsmouth 10th January 1934 - Sailed Portsmouth for Gibraltar 15th January 1934 - Arrived Arosa Bay 15th January 1934 - Arrived Gibraltar 17th January 1934 - Sailed Arosa Bay 19th January 1934 - Arrived Gibraltar 1st February 1934 - At Trinidad 3rd February 1934 - Arrived Trinidad 6th February 1934 - Sailed Trinidad for exercises 8th February 1934 - Arrived Trinidad 14th February 1934 - Sailed Trinidad for Barbadow 15th February 1934 - Arrived Barbados 21st February 1934 - Sailed Barbados for St. Kitts 22nd February 1934 - Arrived St. Kitts from Barbados 26th February 1934 - Sailed St. Kitts for the Azores 8th March 1934 - Arrived the Azores 10th March 1934 - Sailed the Azores 7th April 1934 - Sailed Gibraltar for UK 11th April 1934 - Arrived Plymouth 11th April 1934 - Sailed Plymouth 12th April 1934 - Arrived Plymouth 31st May 1934 - Arrived Portsmouth 2nd June 1934 - Capt. J.S.M. Ritchie in Command 2nd June 1934 - Sailed UK 6th June 1934 - Arrived Gibraltar and sailed for Malta 10th June 1934 - Arrived Malta 9th July 1934 - Arrived Corfu 15th August 1934 - Arrived Malta 1st September 1934 - Arrived Trieste 22nd September 1934 - Arrived Sibenik 7th October 1934 - Arrived Stari Grad 8th October 1934 - Arrived Starigrad 19th October 1934 - Arrived Gibraltar and sailed for Plymouth 25th October 1934 - Arrived Malta 10th December 1934 - Refitting at Plymouth 5th January 1935 - Arrived Portsmouth 10th January 1935 - Sailed Plymouth for Gibraltar and Malta 15th January 1935 - Arrived Gibraltar 18th January 1935 - Arrived Malta 20th January 1935 - Sailed Malta 24th May 1935 - Arrived Scapa Flow 24th June 1935 - Arrived Portland 16th July 1935 - Attended 1935 Spithead Fleet Review 17th September 1935 - Sailed Spithead 11th February 1936 - Arrived Tenerife 18th June 1936 - Sailed Portsmouth for Plymouth 19th June 1936 - Arrived Plymouth 20th July 1936 - Arrived Portsmouth 25th September 1936 - Sailed Rosyth for Invergordon 14th October 1936 - Sailed Invergordon 24th October 1936 - Sailed Rosyth for Portsmouth 25th March 1937 - Arrived and Sailed Gibraltar 29th March 1937 - Arrived Portsmouth 28th May 1937 - Arrived Invergordon 8th July 1937 - Arrived Great Yarmouth 13th July 1937 - Sailed Torbay for exercises 16th July 1937 - Arrived Portsmouth 22nd July 1937 - Arrived Plymouth 25th October 1937 - Sailed Invergordon January 1938 - Home Fleet 22nd November 1938 - Sailed Rosyth for Plymouth 28th July 1939 - Sailed Rosyth for Plymouth August 1939 - Home Fleet 25th August 1939 - Sailed Portland 28th August 1939 - Arrived Rosyth 3rd September 1939 - Home Fleet Rosyth 1st October 1939 - Sailed Rosyth 5th October 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe and arrived at Scapa Flow 8th October 1939 - Sail Scapa Flow 8th October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow 11th October 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow 13th October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow for Loch Ewe. Arrived later that day 15th October 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe 23rd October 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe for the Clyde 25th October 1939 - Arrived the Clyde 26th October 1939 - Sailed the Clyde to cover the Atlantic convoy routes, including Halifax convoys 28th October 1939 - Arrived on the Clyde 17th November 1939 - Sustained engine trouble while at sea from Halifax. 23rd November 1939 - Force L. Refuelling at Halifax 24th November 1939 - Sailed Halifax to cover convoys HXF.10 and HX.10 27th November 1939 - Sailed Halifax to cover convoys HXF.10 and HX.10 10th December 1939 - Sailed Halifax 10th December 1939 - Arrived Halifax escorting liner Duchess Of Richmond 12th December 1939 - Collided with liner Samaria 17th December 1939 - Arrived Greenock 17th December 1939 - Arrived in the Clyde 17th December 1939 - Arrived Greenock 28th February 1940 - Sailed the Clyde 29th February 1940 - Arrived Plymouth for refitting 25th March 1940 - Sailed Plymouth 26th March 1940 - Arived in the Clyde October 1942 - Sailed Scapa Flow. Support for Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch) 30th October 1942 - Arrived Gibraltar 3rd March 1943 - Sailed Scapa Flow 1st June 1943 - Anchored Eyla Bay 7th June 1943 - Sailed Eyla Bay 7th July 1943 - Sailed Scapa Flow. Operation Camera 22nd June 1944 - Sailed Scapa Flow 15th March 1948 - Broken up | |||
HMS Furious Artwork Collection |
  HMS Furious with HMS Revenge by Ivan Berryman. |  Spitfires - Malta Bound by Philip West. |   Fast and Furious by Stan Stokes. |
 Glorious and Furious Riding out a Gale in the Forth by W L Wyllie. |
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Last edited : 15:10, March 23, 2011
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