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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Furious:

  • HMS Furious (1797) was a 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig launched in 1797 and sold in 1802.
  • HMS Furious (1804) was a 12-gun Archer-class gun-brig launched in 1804 and sold in 1815.
  • HMS Furious (1850) was a wooden-hulled paddle frigate launched in 1850. She was hulked in 1867 and sold in 1884.
  • HMS Furious (1896) was an Arrogant-class second class protected cruiser launched in 1896. She was hulked in 1915 and renamed Forte, and was sold in 1923.
  • HMS Furious (47) was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser launched in 1916. She was converted to a flush-deck aircraft carrier between 1921 and 1925 and was sold in 1948.

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HMS Furious

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Navy have been named HMS Furious: HMS Furious (1797) was a 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig launched in 1797 and sold in 1802. HMS Furious (1804) was a 12-gun...

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Tondern raid

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water by cranes. Furious was designed for aircraft to take off from its forward flight deck. In March 1918 the battlecruiser HMS Furious joined the Grand...

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List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy

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when the High Seas Fleet surrendered a year later. Their half-sister HMS Furious was designed with a pair of 18-inch (457 mm) guns, the largest guns ever...

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Naval aviation

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on July 19, 1918, by seven Sopwith Camels launched from the carrier HMS Furious. In August 1914 Germany operated 20 planes and one Zeppelin, another...

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List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy

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United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and...

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Furious

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fantasy action film Fast & Furious, or The Fast and the Furious, an American crime action adventure films media franchise HMS Furious, the name of several Royal...

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HMS Belfast

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capital ship. Forty-two Fairey Barracuda dive-bombers from HMS Victorious and HMS Furious made up the strike force; escorted by eighty fighters. Launched...

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Thomas Hope Troubridge

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Second World War, initially as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier HMS Furious carrying much needed sugar back to Britain in July 1940 and then making...

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Flight deck

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of capital ships, a number of battlecruisers, including the British HMS Furious and Courageous class, the American USS Lexington and Saratoga, and the...

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Aircraft carrier

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airplane was thrown overboard while attempting another landing on Furious. HMS Furious was modified again when her rear turret was removed and another flight...

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HMS Incomparable

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carried less armour than contemporary battlecruisers. The last of these, HMS Furious, was intended to carry only two 18-inch guns, one forward and one aft...

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List of operations in the Mediterranean Sea area during World War II

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delivery of 38 Spitfires to Malta from HMS Furious Bowery (1942) — delivery of 64 Spitfires to Malta from HMS Eagle and USS Wasp Brasso (1942) — scheme...

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History of the aircraft carrier

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seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree. On 2 August 1917, Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, Royal Navy, landed his Sopwith Pup aircraft on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow...

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Sister ship

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but the last ship, HMS Furious, had two 18-inch (457 mm) guns instead. All three were converted into aircraft carriers, with Furious again differing from...

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Timeline for aircraft carrier service

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ship to be modified with a permanent flight deck was the battlecruiser HMS Furious, which initially had a single flying-off deck forward of the original...

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Sopwith Pup

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Harris Dunning became the first aircraft to land aboard a moving ship, HMS Furious. Dunning was killed on his third landing when the Pup fell over the side...

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835 Naval Air Squadron

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where a refitted HMS Furious lay waiting to take them aboard. Furious left Norfolk on 3 April 1942, and arrived at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), Hampshire...

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Hawker Hurricane

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operational in mid-1941 and scored its first kill while operating from HMS Furious on 31 July 1941. During the next three years, Fleet Air Arm Sea Hurricanes...

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Fairey III

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cruisers and battleships, and with wheels, from the aircraft carriers HMS Furious, Eagle, Courageous, Glorious and Hermes. The IIIF remained in front line...

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830 Naval Air Squadron

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After completing training, in March 1944 the squadron embarked upon HMS Furious and subsequently participated in Operation Tungsten, a dive bombing attack...

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822 Naval Air Squadron

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Reconnaissance) Flights at Netheravon and posted to the Home Fleet aboard HMS Furious. From March to November 1936 it was equipped with Fairey Seals passed...

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