Monthly Archives: September 2026

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1978, was the Royal Navy’s last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier. She was the Royal Navy’s first aircraft carrier to be equipped with an angled flight deck.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(R09)

HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and the second of three Invincible-class ships constructed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and was affectionately known to her crew as “Lusty”. In 1982, the conflict in theContinue reading “HMS ILLUSTRIOUS (RO6) 2005”