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Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk  Royal Navy Battleships  HMS Furious |
| Royal naval battlecruiser HMS Furious converted to a semi-carrier during 1917 and finally emerging as a flush decked aircraft carrier. Battleship website dedicated to the history of HMS Furious from launch to participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of HMS Furious. |
| .HMS Furious was third battlecruiser
(following on form HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous) to be given
Two 18-inch guns (one each fore and aft turrets) , the turret
rings were made the same size as the rings for the 15-inch gun turrets
in case problems arose with the 18- inch guns. HMS Furious was nearly
completed at Elswick, when the Admiralty decided on the 19th march
1917, to modify the battlecruiser, with a slopping flying off deck
which extended to the forecastle, also fitted with two derricks for
hoisting aircraft aboard. The ship was completed with the flight
deck and one foreword turret on the 4th July 1917 when she joined the
Fleet. A few months later on the 4th July 1917, a more drastic
conversion was added giving her an after flight deck, making her a full
aircraft carrier. SEE HMS Furious the
Aircraft Carrier
Displacement: 19,513 Speed: 31.5 knots Compliment: 880 Armament: two 18-inch guns in pairs, eleven 5.5 inch guns, two 3 inch guns , four 3 pdr guns and two 21 inch torpedo tubes. |
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HMS Furious the light battlecruiser with the fwd flying off platform (circa 1917). This configuration was not a complete success and so in 1918 the rear 18" gun was removed and a rear flying on deck fitted. This was less a success, formulating in the eventual rebuild to a flush deck carrier. Image and information : Carl Proctor |
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