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HMS Formidable |
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HMS Formidable Laid Down : 17th June 1937 Launched : 17th August 1939 Completed : 24th November 1940 Type : Aircraft Carrier Class : Illustrious Builder : Harland and Wolff Country : UK Pennants : 67, R1 BPF, R67 Fate : Scrapped 12th May 1953. |
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HMS Formidable Photos for Sale |
  HMS Formidable |   HMS Formidable |   HMS Formifable, August 1939. |   HMS Formidable, 1940. |   HMS Formidable, May 1948. |
  HMS Formidable, April 1950. |   HMS |
Timeline Entries : | |||
17th August 1939 - Launched 24th November 1940 - Commissioned 24th November 1940 - Commissioned 2nd February 1941 - Attacked harbor installations at Mogadishu 27th March 1941 - Participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan 17th May 1941 - Patrolling off Crete 19th September 1941 - At Norfolk Virginia repairing 26th March 1942 - In the Maldives 29th March 1942 - Sailed Maldives 2nd April 1942 - Arrived Maldives October 1942 - Sailed Scapa Flow. Support for Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch) 30th October 1942 - Arrived Gibraltar 3rd November 1942 - Sailed Gibraltar November 1944 - British Pacific Fleet November 1944 - Capt. W. G. Andrewes, CBE, DSO 14th January 1945 - Sailed Gibraltar 17th January 1945 - Off Malta 21st January 1945 - Arrived Alexandria 27th January 1945 - Sailed Alexandria. Arrived off Port Said 28th January 1945 - Anchored at Port Suez 1st February 1945 - Arrived Aden 2nd February 1945 - Sailed Aden 8th February 1945 - Arrived Colombo 16th July 1945 - Attacked the Tokyo area 17th July 1945 - Attacked the Tokyo Area 5th February 1946 - Arrived Portsmouth from Sydney 5th February 1946 - Capt. P. Rucke-Keene in Command 13th February 1946 - Capt George Cunningham Paton Menzies Assumed Command April 1946 - Capt George Cunningham Paton Menzies Relinquished Command 1953 - Broken up | |||
HMS Formidable Artwork Collection |
  HMS Formidable by Ivan Berryman. |
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