HMS Unicorn surrounded by the escort carriers of Force V off Salerno
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Seafires take off from the deck of the escort carrier HMS STALKER
the tribal class was great, I picked up a bunch of books in Inverness earlier this week - one on the travails of HMS Kelly, HMS Campbeltown (raid on St Nazaire) and some on cruisers, escort carriers and attempts to make hybrid battleship-carriers
Force H warships HMS Duke of York, HMS Nelson, HMS Renown, HMS Formidable, and HMS Argonaut underway off North Africa, Nov 1942
Force H warships HMS Duke of York, HMS Nelson, HMS Renown, HMS Formidable, and HMS Argonaut underway off North Africa, Nov 1942
23 Essex Carriers that were sailing well into the seventies. That's on top of escort carriers
A boxing tournament on the flight deck of the escort carrier HMS RAJAH.
A Seafire ends up on its back after a botched landing aboard HMS ATTACKER in the fickle winds off Salerno, 1943
A Fairey Swordfish of No 824 Squadron Fleet Air Arm takes off from the escort carrier HMS STRIKER during an anti-submarine sweep.
I believe there are still 2 US carriers sat off the coast. I reckon that would be sufficient escort.
29/3/42. The German destroyer Z26 sinking following an engagement with the escort of convoy PQ13. The cruiser HMS Trinidad and destroyer HMS Eclipse had inflicted fatal damage before the latter was driven off by two of Z26’s sister ships. They rescued 88 men, but 243 were lost.
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British escort aircraft carrier HMS Activity underway in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, United Kingdom, Oct 1942
Chilling in my unicorn onesie, with my unicorn pacy surrounded by unicorn stuffies.... I think I might like unicorns
I mean, LHDs might make more sense.
But those are basically escort carriers by another name anyway.
HMS Prince of Wales were greeted by northern lights while sailing off the coast of Norway .
6/3 1940. The German cargo ship SS Hannover was intercepted off the Dominican Republic by the cruiser HMS Dunedin and destroyer HMCS Assiniboine. Despite attempts to scuttle her, she was boarded and salvaged. Hannover would become HMS Audacity, the Royal Navy’s first escort carrier.
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Learning a class of USN WW2 escort carriers was named after Boops Boops (Bogue) 🤯
Great Cabin, Bilge Pump, Wardroom — Inside HMS Unicorn, 1824
HMS Formidable and two destroyers off the Rock of Gibraltar, 1940s; photo taken from HMS Rodney
