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HMS Vindictive - Cruiser
Country : UK Launched : 17th January 1918
HMS VINDICTIVE. Harland & Wolff, Belfast launched this ship on 17 January 1918 and she entered service in the Royal Navy as an experimental aircraft carrier on 1 October 1918. She was converted before launch from a Hawkins class cruiser, previously named HMS CAVENDISH.
VINDICTIVE was converted back to a cruiser in 1924 as the first Royal Navy cruiser with aircraft catapult gear, commissioning as such on 15 April 1925; she subsequently became a training ship in 1937.
For details of her previous and subsequent service, see Vindictive entries under the appropriate date (1918, 1937, 1939).
Converted from Aircraft Carrier 1925. Scrapped February 1946.
Known Pennants : D36, I36
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