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...Baron Fisher|Lord Fisher]]. After the Great War they were converted into aircraft carriers. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:

The only member of her class, she was the first all-big-gun battleship to be laid down, launched, and co ...Vickers had "taken the 12-inch gun machinery started for the "Lord Nelson" class and appropriated it to the "Dreadnought," the date of the orders have there

''Kearsarge'', the lead ship of her class of battleships, was the first ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be name ...Ship No. 1''''', allowing her illustrious name to be given to an aircraft carrier, CV-12, and later to CV-33. But she continued her yeoman service and made m

...h flight appears to involve about seven men, so this might mean about five aircraft.{{NLFeb29|pp. 240-1}} However, prior to completion, she was converted to a carrier. The forward 18-in turret ("A") was never fitted and a flying-off deck was

...:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Glorious'' (1916)|fate2=as aircraft carrier ...orious''''' was completed as a battlecruiser, but converted to an aircraft carrier in the late 1920s.

...he only ship in her class actually completed, and even then as an aircraft carrier. {{Footer Normandie Class Battleship (1914)}}

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...is wife, Alice Margaret (d. 1889), fourth daughter of the Reverend Matthew Carrier Tompson, rural dean and vicar of Alderminster, Worcestershire. At the exam ...w. He would say, "Well, do you all understand that?" The majority of the class, taking the line of least resistance, would say "Yes" or acquiesce in silen

...naval air service as well as what was in effect the world's first aircraft carrier (fitted to carry seaplanes), until it was decided that Sheerness would serv ..., where he remained until appointed to ''Pembroke'' as [[Commodore, Second Class (Royal Navy)|Commodore]] of the [[Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham]] on 11 Aug

|{{UK-Victoria|f=p}}||second class battleship||9 Apr, 1887||Rammed 22 Jun, 1893 |{{UK-Katoomba|f=p}}||third class protected cruiser||27 Aug, 1889||Sold 1906

...ere primarily to be deployed to [[Hawkins Class Cruiser (1917)|''Hawkins'' class]] cruisers completed after the war.<ref>''Handbook of Captain F.C. Dreyer's | As this ship was completed as an aircraft carrier, doubt about her Dreyer equipment is greater still.

.... By 1930, it was used in some [[Hawkins Class Cruiser (1917)|''Hawkins'' class cruisers]] in lieu of [[Dreyer Table Mark I*|Mark I* tables]] originally en The range clock's output shaft fed a tuning differential which drove the carrier for the red [[Clock Range|clock range]] pencil across the range plot and pe

Some minor T.B.D. actions & L. cruiser raids with aircraft from Dec ^<u>..</u> 15 to March ^<u>..</u> 16. The action of 31 May shewed that "Q. Elizabeth" class will stand a hammering very well. "Barham" "Warspite" & "Malaya" were all

...eted as cruisers, but one was completed as the [[Aircraft Carrier|aircraft carrier]] {{UK-Vindictive}}. Although their 7.5-in guns lent them to the notion of {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:

#Barnes, C. H. (1967). ''Shorts Aircraft since 1900''. London: Putnam & Company Limited. #Campbell, John (1972). Queen Elizabeth Class. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 085177-052-5.

...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. ...ments and trials 1912-14, list of those ordered during 1914, report on 'M' Class trials Feb 1915, and proposals for construction 1916-17.

|type=aircraft carrier ...ir ship. In light of this meandering identity, we treat her as a distinct class.

* The First [[Town Class Cruiser (1909)|Town Class]]: 1908-31 (Part 1 of 3), by David Lyon * The ''Littorio'' Class, by Aldo Fraccaroli/Antony Preston

.... ''Winchester''''' was one of twenty-one [["W" Class Destroyer (1917)|"W" class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1917-18. ...f Cdr. [[Henry Maurice Coombs]], ''Winchester'' collided with the aircraft carrier {{UK-Courageous}} in 1931.<ref>Coombs Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/213

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