HMS Ark Royal (R09) Audacious Class Fleet Aircraft Carrier Exercise Strong Express Oslo Norway 1972

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1978, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier. She was the Royal Navy's first aircraft carrier to be equipped with an angled flight deck.

 

Ark Royal was the sister ship to HMS Eagle, which was initially named HMS Audacious, hence the name of the class. Four Audacious-class ships were laid down, but two (HMS Africa and the original HMS Eagle) were cancelled at the end of the war, and construction of the other two suspended for several years. Both surviving ships were extensively upgraded throughout their lifetimes.

 

809 NAS – 12 Buccaneer S2 Strike

892 NAS – 14 Phantom FG1 Fleet Air Defence

B Flight 849 NAS – 4 Gannet AEW3 Airborne Early Warning

849 NAS. – 1 Gannet COD4 Carrier Onboard Delivery

824 NAS – 7 Sea King HAS2 Helicopter Anti-submarine warfare

Ships Flight – 2 Wessex HAS1 Search and Rescue

 

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