4 x 12 pounder (5 kg), 2 x 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Maxim
Aircraft:
5 floatplanes, 2 land planes
Motto:
The Royal Navy had been using a converted cruiser, HMS Hermes, as a seaplane carrier, to conduct trials in 1913. At the outbreak of the First World War a number of cross channel ferries were converted as well. However, another ship was needed and in 1914 a tramp steamer was requisitioned whilst under construction. This 7000 ton vessel was turned into the first purpose-built aircraft carrying vessel. She could carry five float planes and 2 normal aircraft (the latter would have to recover on land). The seaplanes could take off over the bow and landed in the water alongside the carrier before being lifted back into the hold by crane. The White Ensign of the Royal Navy. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A seaplane tender (or seaplane carrier) is a ship which provides the facililites necessary for operating seaplanes. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The English Channel (French: La Manche, the sleeve) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
The ship spent the war in the Eastern Mediterranean and took part in the Dardanelles campaign. She returned to the UK in 1920 and was renamed HMS Pegasus in 1934. She served in minor roles during the Second World War. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
Originally named Ark Ralegh, she was bought by Queen Elizabeth's navy for £5000 ("money well given," according to her new commander, Lord Howard of Effingham) and, as ArkRoyal, was the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588.
The second HMSArkRoyal, after a gap of almost 300 years, was a merchant ship converted on the building stocks to be a seaplane carrier was was the worlds first Aircraft carrier Launched in 1914, she served in the Dardanelles campaign and throughout World War I.
She was renamed HMS Pegasus in 1934, to free the name ArkRoyal for a new ship, and was broken up in 1950.
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