HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre-class battleship Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924.

HMS Eagle was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, in service 1951–1972. Until the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers in the 21st century, she and her sister Ark Royal were the two largest Royal Navy aircraft carriers ever built.

Apr 3, 2020 · HMS Eagle was the former deadnought Almirante Cochrane ordered by Chile, requisitioned to be completed as a Carrier in 1918. She fought in WW2, lost 1942.

Apr 10, 2024 · HMS Eagle was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier and largest British carrier until the modern Queen Elizabeth-class of the 21st century. She was a near sister of Ark Royal but differed significantly.

HMS Eagle was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, in service 1951-1972. With her sister ship Ark Royal, she is one of the two largest British aircraft carriers yet built. She was initially laid down on 24 October 1942 at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast as one of four ships of the...

Mar 19, 2021 · HMS Eagle (R 05): HMS Eagle was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, in service 1951-1972. With her sister ship Ark Royal, she was one of the two largest Royal Navy aircraft carriers yet built.

The Audacious-class aircraft carriers were a class of aircraft carriers proposed by the British government in the 1930s – 1940s and completed after the Second World War. The two ships built were heavily modified and diverged over their service lives.

British battleship HMS Nelson and aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, en route from Cape Town, South Africa to Freetown, Sierra Leone, British West Africa in search of German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis, sailed within 7 kilometers of the German ship without detecting her.

22nd Deployed with HMS RAMILLIES and HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN with destroyer screen to carry out offensive sweep between Libyan coast and south Italy.

Mar 21, 2022 · Renamed Eagle, she was commissioned into service in 1924 as the world’s largest aircraft carrier and as the only ship in the British fleet with instruments labeled in Spanish and in metric units due to its previous life as the beginnings of battleship Almirante Cochrane.