Summary and Key Points: Navies initially explored hybrid battleship-aircraft carriers to integrate air power with traditional naval firepower. The Royal Navy's HMS Furious in 1918 marked the first ...

A carrier for the history books. From the Sea… The HMS Furious was originally a Courageous-class cruiser that was intended to support operations as a part of the Baltic Project, in which a large ...

Tags: Carrier, Cruiser-Carrier, HMS Furious, Royal Navy, and World War II. This Aircraft Carrier Was Armed With the Royal Navy’s Heaviest Gun Ever. May 4, 2020. By: Caleb Larson. Share.

British Royal Naval Air Service pilot Edwin H. Dunning successfully landed an aircraft on a moving warship, the HMS Furious, for the first time on August 2, 1917.

The HMS Queen Elizabeth is the most powerful aircraft carrier in British history. On Thursday, the warship was visited by its namesake — Queen Elizabeth II — to officially welcome it into the ...

That navy workhorse, the aircraft carrier, has been around for 100 years. (Ok, nearly . While the concept was presented in 1909, the first ship, the Royal Navy’s HMS Furious , didn’t make its ...