Five ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Ark Royal'':
* , the flagship of the
English fleet during the
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (a.k.a. the Enterprise of England, es, Grande y Felicísima Armada, links=no, lit=Great and Most Fortunate Navy) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aris ...
campaign of 1588
* , planned as freighter, built as seaplane carrier during the First World War, renamed ''Pegasus'' in 1934
* , British
aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...
launched in 1937 that participated in the
Second World War and was sunk by a U-boat in 1941
* , an launched in 1950, decommissioned in 1979
* , an , launched in 1981, decommissioned in 2011
Battle honours
*
Armada
Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet, which also adopted into English, Malay and Indonesian for the same meaning, or an adjective meaning 'armed'; Armáda () is the Czech and Slovak word for armed forces.
Armada may also refe ...
1588
*
Cádiz 1596
*
Dardanelles 1915
*
Norway 1940
*
Spartivento 1940
*
Mediterranean 1940–1941
*
''Bismarck'' 1941
*
Malta Convoys 1941
*
Al Faw
Al-Fāw ( ar, ٱلْفَاو; sometimes transliterated as ''Fao'') is a port town on Al-Faw Peninsula in Iraq near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf. The Al Faw Peninsula is part of the Basra Governorate.
History
The town lies at the so ...
2003
References
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Royal Navy ship names