We even ate our food (corned beef sandwiches) while pushing aircraft and our main meal of the day was taken, whenever possible during the evenings when work on the aircraft permitted. JUTLAND 1916 The ship was laid down later that year and launched on 8th December 1942. Ventilation systems prevented their closed hangars from building up avgas fumes and drains carried excess water from the sprinklers and fire hoses over the side to avoid capsize. delayed by compressor defect when ships of the, 24th Attacked harbours and shipping in Inland on Sumatra during passage to Australia for BPF service, covered by HMS. MERIDIAN As with Indomitable, not all the lower hangar deck could be retained. The ship was transferred to the British Pacific Fleet at the end of the year and attacked Japanese-controlled oil . Carried out Rehearsal for planned Their weight was to remain 23,000 tons. Statistics compiled by the BPF staff showed that 61 Seafires were lost or damaged beyond repair during both phases of the operation due to deck-landing accidents. April 1, 1945: Damage on HMS Indefatigable from the Kamikaze. Greater London after HMS BERWICK. screened by HM Destroyers MYNGS, VIGILANT, VERULAM, 4th Carried cut air attacks on oil Passage to Fremantle and Sydney. by HM Destroyers. CU For'ard guns of ship. preparation for US landings on Okinawa. Task Force 57 with ships of British Pacific Fleet. August There were 32 Seafire L/F IIIs in their limited role of fleet protection along with eight Hellcats configured for photo-reconnaissance. INDOMITABLE and HMS VICTORIOUS in joint Reserve status in 1947. BELLONA with Home Fleet destroyer National Savings campaign in March, BASQUE ROADS November Built at the famous John Brown Yard on the Clyde, at Clydebank, Scotland, Indefatigable was laid down on 3 November 1939 and launched on 8 December 1942. Then we moved all the aircraft round in two big circles by moving the middle rows forward and the outer rows back, across and forward into the middle rows. Returned to Leyte The ship visited New Zealand in The world's first purpose-built British aircraft carrier was HMS Hermes, built by Sir W. G. Armstrong-Whitworth and Co. launched at the Walker Shipyard on Tyneside in 1919. . Battle of Jutland in 1916. Its 45 x 33ft platform served only the main upper hangar. She was recommissioned in 1950 as a training ship for service with the Home Fleet Training Squadron, participating in exercises and making several port visits overseas. Aircraft Carriers ILLUSTRIOUS, INDOMITABLE further editing and formatting is required,