HMS Eagle played a crucial role in Operation Pedestal, a vital Allied convoy mission to resupply the besieged island of Malta ...

HMS Eagle was paid off in Portsmouth in 1972 after the decision to rundown the the Royal Navy fixed wing aircraft carrier fleet in 1966. She was sent to the breakers in October 1978.

At 11pm on September 6th, 1776, Sargent Ezra Lee began cranking away on a lever that propelled the tiny submersible that he sat inside of. His goal was to make his way to the British Flagship HMS ...

A German U-boat drew first blood in sinking the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle with a spread of four torpedoes that weren’t sighted until too late.

Phantoms conducted extensive trials aboard from Mar. to Jun. 1969 but the HMS Ark Royal (R09), not the Eagle, was eventually chosen to operate the Phantoms of 892 Squadron, the only operational ...

ALTHOUGH she was built in peacetime, the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle had a busy life on the ocean. Laid down at Harland and Wolff in 1942 while World War Two was still raging, it was March 1946 ...

The Short Take Off and Landing derivative of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle is being used to test new unmanned capabilities that the Royal ... — HMS Prince of Wales (@HMSPWLS) November 17, 2023. The ...

11th August 1942 13.15hrs HMS Eagle. I was standing in the shade of No.1 starboard 6" gun, fifty feet above the waterline. The Eagle shuddered with four distinct lurches.

Its single mission with the HMS Eagle revealed the design's biggest flaw. British warships had copper plates installed below the waterline to prevent biofouling.

My father told me of the time when he was torpedoed off the Eagle in the Med. He was below decks and said his feet didn't touch the ladder because of the press of men trying to reach the decks. He ...