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...gears used in British Aircraft Ships 1922, a paper dealing with a proposed aircraft carrying Mail Steamer and rough diagrams of a 'Flying Off' device. ...ction during the War. 1914-18' vol II part 1, includes records of aircraft carrier and armed merchant cruiser constructions.

In 1913, it started building aircraft engines and [[Sopwith Pup]] fighter planes under licence. |{{UK-Argus|f=p}}||aircraft carrier||2 Dec, 1917||Sold 5 Dec, 1946

|{{UK-Vindictive|f=p}}||aircraft carrier||17 Jan, 1918||Converted 1925

|type=aircraft carrier ...s Cruiser (1917)|''Hawkins'' class cruiser]], but completed as an aircraft carrier, '''H.M.S. ''Vindictive'''''. Between 1923 and 1925, she was converted bac

* The Genesis of the Big Fleet Carrier: USS ''Lexington'' CV-2, by Norman Friedman * The ''Kiev'': Cruiser or Carrier?, by John Jordan

...f Cdr. [[Henry Maurice Coombs]], ''Winchester'' collided with the aircraft carrier {{UK-Courageous}} in 1931.<ref>Coombs Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/213

|type=aircraft carrier ...utset to operate aircraft in a proper manner &ndash; being able to recover aircraft while at sea.

...uld serve in the Home Fleet and as flagship of the Rear Admiral Commanding Aircraft Carriers.<ref name=times18apr1933/>

|type=aircraft carrier ...d a continuous flight deck and more accurately reflected a mature aircraft carrier than any previous vessel.

..."immediately." Oldham asked that his appointment to command the aircraft carrier be cancelled and that his appointment to the Milford Division of the Coast

...rier [[H.M.S. Ark Royal (1937)|''Ark Royal'']], and as Flag Captain to V/A Aircraft Carriers. This apparently ended on 25 May, 1941 with another appointment d

D'Oyly-Hughes was killed when his aircraft carrier {{UK-Glorious|f=p}} was sunk by gunfire under controversial circumstances o

...ida'' on 1 April was laid at the feet of Kennedy-Purvis, but the number of aircraft operating at the time were taken as such an extenuating circumstance that n

...I) Mercury'' 30 May 1935 p.5.</ref> aircraft carrier ''Langley'', aircraft carrier ''Saratoga'', {{USOfficerReg1935|pp. 18-19}} and the Pensacola Naval Air St

...as assigned to duty in connection with the fitting out of the new aircraft carrier ''Lexington'' on 1 October, 1926, and remained aboard when she commissioned

...6, Bristol was the first captain of America's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, {{US-Ranger}}.

...be appointed to Sea Service." By his own account he had written off three aircraft.{{AgarFootprints|p. 44}} An appointment to the ''Hardy'' was cancelled, as ...od services when ''Dorsetshire'' and {{UK-Cornwall}} were sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Indian Ocean. On 11 June Vice-Admiral [[Geoffrey Schomberg Arbuthnot

...ently made Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Home Fleet Aircraft Carriers. He went on unemployed tim on 27 November, 1942.<ref>Bovell Serv

Bulteel died from illness while captain of the aircraft carrier {{UK-Furious|f=p}}.

Onslow was killed when the aircraft carrier {{UK-Hermes|f=p}} was lost under his command.<ref>Onslow Service Record. {