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The British Aircraft Carrier HMS Furious (Paperback)
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The British Aircraft Carrier HMS Furious (Paperback)
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Loot Price R388
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The British Airship Carrier HMS Furious is one of the most unusual
units of the Second World War. The ship was designed during the
previous conflict as a „great light cruiser” with 457mm guns,
but far-reaching changes were made during construction. Furious
entered service in June 1917 as aircraft cruiser with a large
aircraft deck in the bow and a single turret with a gun of the
mentioned caliber in the stern. Thus, Furious made history as one
of the precursors of British on-board aviation, becoming a floating
platform for various types of trials and tests with airplanes. It
quickly turned out that aircraft deck took up the entire bow part
and is insufficient to meet the needs of the day-to-day expanding
on-board aviation. Therefore, after carrying out only a few patrols
on the waters of the North Sea, the ship was returned to the
shipyard in the same year, where it underwent further
reconstruction. This time, the aft tower and mast were removed and
in their place was built another hangar with an aircraft deck,
which was connected to the bow with special platforms running on
the sides of the preserved superstructures. Since then, Furious was
already a powerful aircraft, unfortunately not very successful
considering the superstructure with a chimney that occupies the
entire amidships, which apart from obviously taking up space,
caused air turbulences induced by the huge dimensions and warm
exhaust gases coming from the chimney. However, this did not
prevent Furious from becoming the hero of the historical event,
which was on-board aviation first strike on land targets, which
took place on July 19, 1918. The target of the attack was the
German Zeppelin base in Tondern, and it was carried out using
Sopwith Camel planes taking off from the deck of Furious.
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