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HMS Ark Royal

Axis & Allies War at Sea - HMS Ark Royal
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General TypeShip
Unit TypeCarrier
Cost22
SetBase
ManufacturerHasbro
Available1939
Set ID7
Game Class LimitsArk Royal
CountryUnited Kingdom (Details)
PrototypeHMS Ark Royal (Details)
ClassArk Royal (Details)
Armor5
Vital10
Hull Points4
Speed139
Primary4/4/3/0
AA7/0/-/-
Air Capacity3
Special AbilityExpert Dogfighter
Special AbilityExpert Torpedoes
Game RarityR
Axis & Allies War at Sea - HMS Ark Royal HMS ARKROYAL
57  of these sold for an average price of: 18.7818.7857 of these sold for an average price of: 18.78
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Prototype:
HMS Ark Royal was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that served during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, Ark Royal was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, England, and completed in November 1938. Her design differed from previous aircraft carriers. Ark Royal was the first ship on which the hangars and flight deck were an integral part of the hull, instead of an add-on or part of the superstructure. Designed to carry a large number of aircraft, she had two hangar deck levels. She served during a period that first saw the extensive use of naval air power; several carrier tactics were developed and refined aboard Ark Royal.

Ark Royal served in some of the most active naval theatres of the Second World War. She was involved in the first aerial and U-boat kills of the war, operations off Norway, the search for the German battleship Bismarck, and the Malta Convoys. Ark Royal survived several near misses and gained a reputation as a 'lucky ship'. She was torpedoed on 13 November 1941 by the German submarine U-81 and sank the following day; one of her 1,488 crew members was killed. Her sinking was the subject of several inquiries; investigators were keen to know how the carrier was lost, in spite of efforts to save the ship and tow her to the naval base at Gibraltar. They found that several design flaws contributed to the loss, which were rectified in new British carriers.

The wreck was discovered in December 2002 by an American underwater survey company using sonar mounted on an autonomous underwater vehicle, under contract from the BBC for the filming of a documentary about the ship, at a depth of about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and approximately 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) from Gibraltar.
Class History:
The HMS Ark Royal was a single ship class.
Country:
The United Kingdom, made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is an island nation in northwestern Europe. England – birthplace of Shakespeare and The Beatles – is home to the capital, London, a globally influential centre of finance and culture. England is also site of Neolithic Stonehenge, Bath’s Roman spa and centuries-old universities at Oxford and Cambridge.
Item created by: Lethe on 2015-05-31 17:46:30. Last edited by gdm on 2019-06-10 08:10:35

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